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Academic joke of the day
Q: How many faculty does it take to change a lightbulb? A: I’ve heard the administration tried to buy it out, but we’re just going to live with it and let it figure things out from bad annual reviews.
An appropriate column on bipolar disorder
Today in Inside Higher Ed, Ohio State historian Mark Grimsley has a perfectly appropriate column on living in academe with bipolar disorder. Chances are that you’ve known someone with bipolar disorder, whether diagnosed or not, “out” or not.
Overquoting
Excerpts from a note to a class after grading one set of quizzes: There were two reasons why the quiz scores were lower for this quiz than for the others. First, the material is more difficult, and most of you haven’t had experience with legal opinions. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this quiz […]
Adventures in postmodernist typos
So after reading Michel Bérubé’s blog entry yesterday, wherein he discusses “residual humanism at work in Marxism [Raymond] Williams-style,” and why he likes it, among other things, something in it reminded me of his July 25, 2005, entry, wherein he had discussed the latest Harry Potter book and cultural studies, writing at the end, If […]
Sociology of medicine dissertation topic
By Sherman Dorn on September 30, 2006
Advice to grad students in science studies: Wired’s The Thin Pill describes the controversy over metabolic syndrome. It would be a great dissertation topic for a medical sociologist or anthropologist.
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