education

What’s At Stake In The Georgia State University Copyright Case

May 31, 2011

From The Chronicle of Higher Education A closely watched trial in federal court in Atlanta, Cambridge University Press et al. v. Patton et al., is pitting faculty, libraries, and publishers against one another in a case that could clarify the nature of copyright and define the meaning of fair use in the digital age … [...]

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Of Interest On January 17th, 2011

January 17, 2011

For what it’s worth, I’m with Ricky Gervais on deflating the self-important bloat that is Hollywood and organized religion. It would do us Americans a world of good to include the phrase “take the piss out of” in our vocabulary and engage in it from time to time. And not get offended ourselves while preaching [...]

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Learning How To Learn

January 5, 2011

This is what I mean by it. College 2.0: A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man ‘Academy’ on YouTube If Mr. Khan is unfamiliar with a subject he wants to teach, he gives himself a crash course first. In a recent talk he explained how he prepared for his lecture on entropy: “I took two weeks [...]

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School Spirit*

December 6, 2010

We interrupt our twee Irish broadcast to talk about American college sports fans. Not that the Irish don’t love their soccer and (awesome) rugby, but this needs addressing right now. In the name of SCIENCE. Jen took PhD Comics’ recent Grad School Spirit Pop Quiz and scored 2 points. Her excuse: “I am a graduate [...]

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Thank You, Donors Choose Participants!

November 11, 2010

As you can tell from the sidebar, the 2010 Science Bloggers For Students fundraising campaign is officially over. Anna Doherty of Donors Choose sent us some wonderful news today: I wanted to send out a HUGE THANK YOU for all the awesome work that went into making Science Bloggers for Students a success.  472 citizen [...]

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The Science Of Football

November 8, 2010

Tomorrow is the final day of the Science Bloggers for Students fundraising challenge at Donors Choose. Thank you, guys, for helping me raise $461 which will hopefully be doubled by HP some time this week! One of the projects, Rockin Earth, has only $176 left to go! Please, VatulBlog readers, let’s be responsible for the [...]

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The Plan

November 3, 2010

Nothing is going to significantly change in America in the next two years, ok? I’m a football fan, remember? The gridiron gridlock. I can already feel it. This is why I don’t care what happened last night as long as funding cuts to education are not carried out and science classrooms remain sacrosanct and supported [...]

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“You’re Telling Me That’s In The First Amendment?”

October 19, 2010

Do you know what politicians and priests are? Middlemen. Do you know what really efficient organizations do? Get rid of middlemen or give them a chance to do real work. For us, that would mean reading our social contracts and holy books and figuring out their contents ourselves without the aid of some phony who [...]

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Science Friday

October 15, 2010

It’s still Earth Science Week, folks! In my attempts to raise $money$ for science classrooms, I completely neglected to inform you that the public radio show Science Friday may go off the air for lack of funding. We at SciFri are facing severe financial difficulties, i.e. raising money. NSF [National Science Foundation] has turned us [...]

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Earth Science Week Off To A Good Start

October 13, 2010

It’s Earth Science Week! Today in 2010, we have the ongoing oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, controversy over hydro-fracturing to extract hydrocarbons, coalmine explosions, poor economies and infrastructure placing our nuclear future at risk, water resources drying up and countless other resource issues that relate immediately to understanding the earth and our [...]

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