francis collins

in a weird way related to the article i posted yesterday is a nytimes editorial by sam harris (one of the athiest hipster writers) critiquing the nomination of francis collins to head nih. there are a few ways one could read collins’ nomination and his beliefs on the relationship between faith and science (or lack…

religious study “vs” theology?

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Ethics-of-Being-a/47442/

what makes us happy?

from joshua wolf shenk’s article in the june 09 atlantic this means that a glimpse of any one moment in a life can be deeply misleading. a man at 20 who appears the model of altruism may turn out to be a kind of emotional prodigy–or he may be ducking the kind of engagement with…

shameless self-promotion

article out by myself and australian statistical guru nida denson in the journal of higher ed: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_higher_education/toc/jhe.80.4.html it’s great to see it in print because when we first sent it off, we got a notice saying that we needed to shave off about…15 pages or so. talk about painful. speaking of nida, she had not…

homophily and interracial friendship

i need to come back to this article. am trying to ignore the mini-hurricane of boxes and get some writing done today. movers are coming in a week. AHHHH. am stressed but am trying to remind self that life could be a lot worse than guzzling cold electrolyte-filled smart water (leftover from ji’s wedding) and editing paper…

teaching what you don’t know

okay, for now i’m going to use this space to jot down things that i don’t want to forget. from an article in the chronicle about what to do when you’re teaching outside of your content area…that seems to make sense regardless of what you’re teaching: Focusing on lists. When professors teach outside of their…