Sitting eating really-worth-eating strawberries and cream in my newly-screened in back patio, idly watching two cardinals facing off on the grass, I reflected on how amazed I am by the…
Read moreThe Long Debate about Scientific Progress: Statesmen of Science 1750-1950
And now for something completely new to this blog, though not to me. The first in a series of articles about debates about scientific progress in the two hundred years…
Read moreOn Quitting Academia as Full Professors
“Why I left academia” stories have flooded the academic press and internet (see below), along with a cottage industry facilitating such moves. Most are told by graduate students, junior faculty…
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