What’s the proper role of MOOCs in higher ed? Armando Fox, Academic Director, Berkeley Resource Center for Online Education | 4/24/13 Given the inordinate media attention and recent flurry of legislative activity around MOOCs (massive open online courses), I wanted to clarify the position of Berke[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hypocrisy’
April 30th, 2013 - 4:35 am § in Misc.
Is she a father?
. Rosemarie Smead, a 70-year-old Kentucky woman, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest at St. Andrew’s United Church of Christ in Louisville, Kentucky April 27, 2013. There has been no comment from Rome.[...]
April 22nd, 2013 - 11:07 pm § in Misc.
Is Steve Meyer One of Seattle’s Great Biologists?
The Discovery Institute’s mask just slipped a bit more Atheism, Creationism by PZ Myers That ghastly collection of homophobes and right-wing zombies, Focus on the Patriarchy, is starting a new initiative to take on the happily growing army of student atheists. They’re launching a series of ‘ed[...]
April 15th, 2013 - 12:26 pm § in Misc.
Patriotism
TAX DAY: Tina Turner ‘to become Swiss, give up US passport’ US singer Tina Turner arrives for the Emporio Armani fashion show in Milan, on February 26, 2011. Turner — who has been living in Switzerland since 1995 — will soon receive Swiss citizenship and will give up her US p[...]
Slur of the Day: I like Ike, the Jew
Did you know Eisenhower was a Jew? Ikey / ike / iky a Jew [from Isaac][108] Ikey-mo / ikeymo a Jew [from Isaac and Moses][109] READMORE[...]
Texas Brings Back the Pole Tax!
from Wiki: The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the s[...]
March 31st, 2013 - 10:07 am § in Misc.
People of Color: Who was Vicente Guerrero?
I want to take advantage of tomorrow being April Fools Day to comment on the hypocrisy surrounding the neologism “people of color.” The term is terribly misused by political partisans and ethnic activists in the US. Republicans use it to express their angst that America is turning ag[...]
March 27th, 2013 - 4:16 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
UW fails to make list of top 25 places to do research
This list from The Scientist is not credible. We could start with the odd idea that science is biology and national chauvinism. The accompanying article begins with a paen to the failure of the National Institutes of Health budget to keep up with inflation and utterly misses the huge impact of[...]
March 18th, 2013 - 12:27 pm § in America
Send Everyone to College!
I just received this from the Daily Kos and think it may interest those on this list. Apparently Democratic candidate for Governor of Arkansas, Bill Haller wants to give every high school graduate the equivalent of an athletic scholarship. To me, Bill Halter’s proposal has good news and ba[...]
ANDREW APRIKYAN CONVICTED BY THE NIH
I have written a lot on THE-Ave.US and n this listserv about Andrew Aprikyan. Andrew is a scientist who was accused of fraud by an anonymous UW faculty member. The case was muddied because of patent issues involving the UW and, I assume, his accuser. The UW conducted its investigation in a manne[...]