How do you properly respect and frame the work of one who has courageously pressed on with his life despite the diagnosis of ALS (1962 at the age of 21), discovered black-hole evaporation (1974), contributed the most to our understanding of gravity since Einstein, and achieved world-wide fame while searching for a complete theory of everything which he claims will reveal the mind of God?* I ask that question quite literally as I've been thinking about what to write regarding Stephen Hawking for several weeks. Quite … [Read more...] about Reading the Mind of God
Technology in Higher Ed
Twitter: a tool for a new generation of academic conversation or Not? (Updated)
You might remember various Technology in Higher Education posts exploring: “Creepy Treehouse”? Friending Your Professors or Students New Technology and Academic Research Who do you trust? Google and information gathering What Tools Do You Use? Should we not leave Twitter out as a tool for a new generation of academic conversation? A brief piece from The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on how Ed Techie, an education blogger, finds On Twitter, Academic Debates Fall Short. Note: Comments on the The … [Read more...] about Twitter: a tool for a new generation of academic conversation or Not? (Updated)
Russia Licenses Faith Healers
This morning Russia Licenses Faith Healers topped my new mail. The one who forwarded it to me commented, They are soooo far ahead of us. … [Read more...] about Russia Licenses Faith Healers
New Technology and Academic Research
A few links to pass along, regarding connections between new technology and academic research. The Chronicle's Wired Campus blog last week reported on academic uses for Google Earth, such as a map of county-by-county election results, dating back to 1840. Alice Marwick has posted an annotated bibliography of academic research on LiveJournal. (HT: danah boyd, who has also compiled a bibliography on social network research) Online social networks are one of my (many) casual interests. Any other links on this topic … [Read more...] about New Technology and Academic Research
Academic Citations for Blog Posts
Speaking of all of this technical stuff, there is a very cool post about academic citations at The Immanent Frame. They have added a new feature to their blog that provides a drop-down list of standard ways of citing that particular blog entry - MLA, APA, Chicago, etc. It's a very convenient way of getting the correct citation information for a blog post (if, that is, a blog post is something that you should or could cite - I have a feeling the answer to that depends on your discipline). A side question: has anyone … [Read more...] about Academic Citations for Blog Posts