Don't Become a Scientist!
Don’t Become a Scientist!: Are you thinking of becoming a scientist? Do you want to uncover the mysteries of nature, perform experiments or carry out calculations to learn how the world works? Forget it! —– it is actually worse than that.
Read MoreJohn Wiley & Sons to buy Blackwell Publishing | Reuters.com
UPDATE 1-John Wiley & Sons to buy Blackwell Publishing | Reuters.com: Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc. (JWa.N: Quote, Profile, Research) (JWb.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday it agreed to pay 572 million pounds ($1.08 billion) to acquire privately held Blackwell Publishing Holdings Ltd., an academic and professional publisher. The deal, which is expected […]
Read MoreNaNoWriMo
so… there is this thing… called National Novel Writers Month. (its november) The goal is to write a 175 novel by the end of the month… that is the goal, 50000 words. I have another project or two to done in the same time… and they amount to about 50000 words. Is it possible to […]
Read MoreShadows of War
The world is most often presented, in academic text, popular media, and fiction, as a world of places. We are animate beings in a world of objects arranged in a locale. Our geographies have mountains and rivers and landmarks; our civilizations have capitals and governing offices and schools marked on maps; our businesses have boundings […]
Read MoreCiting: am I who you say I am?
Citing: am I who you say I am?: Something marvelous from blah-feme: To be referred to, to be quoted, sorted, circumscribed by the gesture of the upturned commas, single or double: what does this mean? To be linked to, to be pointed at, made part of a discourse, drawn in, made party to it, beholden […]
Read MoreGrad School Writing Rules
Grad School Writing Rules: Terri’s Tips for Successful Graduate School Writing 1. Use simple language to communicate complex ideas. Follow this one rule and you’ll be shocked at how much rigour your thinking gains.* 2. Have a damn good reason for any sentence longer than 30 words. If that sentence can be broken into two, […]
Read MoreFuturelab – Research – Publications – opening education
Futurelab – Research – Publications – opening education: This series of publications aims to open up areas for debate – to provoke and stimulate new visions for education – as well as literally ‘opening up’ education, not only bringing together ideas from educational practice and research but also drawing on the fields of creative arts, […]
Read Morecall for proposals Transdisciplinary Studies
Transdisciplinary Studies Transdisciplinary Studies Transdisciplinary Studies is an internationally oriented book series created to generate new theories and practices to extricate transdisciplinary research from the confining discourses of traditional disciplinarities. Within transdisciplinary domains, this series will publish empirically grounded, theoretically sound work seeking to identify and solve global problems that conventional disciplinary perspectives cannot capture. […]
Read MoreHeroic Computer Dies To Save World From Master's Thesis | The Onion – America's Finest News Source
Heroic Computer Dies To Save World From Master’s Thesis | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source: A courageous young notebook computer committed a fatal, self-inflicted execution error late Sunday night, selflessly giving its own life so that professors, academic advisors, classmates, and even future generations of college students would never have to read Jill […]
Read Morecrooked timber / crooked timbers project: i'm confused
crooked timber / crooked timbers project: i’m confused: via CRTNET, i learned about the crooked timbers project, “a group of communication educators, researchers and practitioners committed to fostering a ‘social constructionist’ understanding of communication as the primary process for creating and sustaining better social worlds.” great. i’m all for projects! and i’m all for scholars […]
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