Category Archives: Academia and Other Nonsense

How you control the debate

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Phil Kadath

Use data by single discipline specific scientists that support your idea. Then, make non-scientists your spokespeople. They don’t know what they’re missing. You know the rest. Take, for instance, this excerpt from this Freeman Dyson interview (audio at link) I … Continue reading →

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Alaska

Amazing fisking (with graphs!) of some global warming garbage played in the media as real science. Look at the actual numbers and it turns out not to be science (or real) at all.

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Early Snark

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Alaska

I enjoy well-written reviews — chiefly of books (although I keep several volumes of Roger Ebert’s movie reviews just because they’re models of the short essay form so damned much fun to read). Here’s a great and funny review: This … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day: 05/12/09

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Phil Kadath

Just a taste of the ideas of the father of modern US Education The mere absorbing of facts and truths is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social … Continue reading →

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When the test doesn’t give the results they like

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Phil Kadath

In Washington, we had a standardized test called the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL). It tested at three different points during a child’s educational career, with the last test being at a 10th Grade Level and given to high … Continue reading →

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If the media wants to talk about torture

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Phil Kadath

They should start in our public schools. There’s a new bogeyman lurking in the closet, and this one isn’t imaginary. Us. One out of three children aged 6 to 11 fears that Ma Earth won’t exist when they grow up, … Continue reading →

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Our soldiers are easy targets

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Phil Kadath

For academia. Penn State University has put together an “Instructional Video” on how to recognize and deal with “veterans”. To my knowledge, Penn didn’t make a video on how to deal with violent eco-terrorists, anti-war protesters, or as mentioned at … Continue reading →

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In the mail…

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Alaska

This should be entertaining. I enjoy pastiches of great character fiction (Sherlock Holmes being the definitive example), but I’ve often wondered what creative mischief could achieve by going back to the original and … editing it. Interleaving new material among … Continue reading →

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When “For the Children” means “For the Administration”

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Phil Kadath

On November 4th the citizenry of Washington elected themselves a new Superintendent of Public Instruction. Randy Dorn has assumed his new position and last week used his position to both please and annoy local school districts. First, he stated that … Continue reading →

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That explains a bit

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Phil Kadath

When the Seattle School District fought and lost their case to keep their race-based standards for the assignment of schools they got two Booby Prizes. One was the satisfaction of being on the wrong side of civil rights case. The … Continue reading →

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