Bloggy bon mots
First, from Kevin Carey: [W]e’ve reached the point where people are actually arguing, with a straight face, that the real crisis in American education is the shameful neglect–the injustice–of how we educate smart white men. Next, from Miriam Burstein (aka The Little Professor): Number of leftover bite-sized chocolate cupcakes from yesterday’s department picnic consumed this afternoon: […]
Don’t get mad; get historiographical
The New York Times preview of Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms has prompted a flurry of responses by people who haven’t yet read the book. Hrrmrmrmrm… Obviously, it’s touched a nerve among historians, perhaps moreso than the flurry responding to Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel. Both books are orthogonal looks at the “rise […]
Truth in administration
Dean Dad’s response to the USNWR rankings strikes me as honest: Ranking schemes like this invariably lead to a two-track response; I know they’re flawed, but I want to do well on them, anyway. Whew! I’m glad someone acknowledged that. Hate the flaws in the competition; need to engage in it. (I’ve been tacit blogging-wise this […]
On working when sick
I’m a fairly healthy adult, on the whole, and lucky to be so. Apart from whatever genetic proclivities I inherited from my parents and the tendency to be too sedentary when work piles up, I’m not sick too often, have reasonable control over my faculties, and consider myself temporarily able-bodied, with some luck staying that […]
A Full Life
By Sherman Dorn on August 24, 2007
The details for the last 24 hours: 5:20 a.m., alarm clock5:30 a.m., get into shower6:00 a.m., wrangle son into car to get to bus6:10 a.m., bus picks son up6:11 a.m., head to early-morning cafe to work on simulated case for undergraduate class I’m not teaching (something a group of us have worked on over the […]
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