Physicist at Large
Personal blog for Alex Small, a young and cranky traditionalist physics professor.
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Educational research and the promise of easy fixes
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This article from Psychology Today discusses the necessity, temptation, and challenge of interpreting data. It discusses a study that foun...
Monday, August 27, 2018
More from Bell's "The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism"
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(Not exact quotes, just synopses of points I want to remember.) pg. 168: He says that cults appear when dominant religions fail. He iden...
Friday, August 24, 2018
Bell on religion
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On page 155, Bell cites Emile Durkheim, who apparently viewed religion as dividing the world not into men and gods but sacred and profane. ...
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Latest book: Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell
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I'm reading The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell. Seventy pages in (out of 339) the book very much has the feel of...
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Havel: Systems seek legitimacy
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I've read about half of the Havel book so far, including the famous essay "The Power of the Powerless." I'm linking a .pd...
Friday, August 10, 2018
Next book: Open Letters by Vaclav Havel
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The Federalist Papers were tedious. I read the first 30 in detail, then skimmed the next 30, then read about the Electoral College and then...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Federalist No. 1
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An interesting point from Federalist No. 1: An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the off...
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