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Cliopatria award nominations
Cliopatria, the group blog at the History News Network, is giving out awards for blogs. Nominations for different categories are now open (through November 30). I suppose this blog is eligible for some categories, but not in the group blog nor newcomer categories.
Door-to-door philosophers
Thanks to a student who compared Descartes’s God existence proofs to evangelists, I had perhaps what should be a Monty Python skit of door-to-door philosophers pop into my head: Rorty: I’m sorry to trouble you, but it’s very important that I offer you some practical truth today. Resident: Look, I had John-Paul Sartre peddling his […]
Productivity in the midst of chaos
After my car adventure yesterday (what? a link to my personal blog? oh, well—the secret’s out for all 1.273510… readers), it turns out I wasn’t half-bad in the productivity department. I sent out a rejection notice (which required piecing together a picture from five reviews), loaded the new version of SAS on my work laptop, […]
Frustrations
Lots of little things done this week but no long stretch of time where I could get one or two significant things done. To steal from the nursery rhyme (can anyone give me an authoritative source, or is this “Trad.”?): Monday’s work was fair for meetings. Tuesday’s work had student seatings. Wednesday’s work was lots […]
Waves of globalization
By Sherman Dorn on November 6, 2005
This morning, I was chairing an attrition-attacked panel at the Social-Science History Association meeting, where one presenter just never made it and where the discussant had to e-mail me her comments because of a minor family crisis. But the comments started a very nice discussion after two papers that appeared to have an odd juxtaposition—one […]
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