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Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

I'm a frequent visitor to the PhysicsForums career section, I try to give the advice I wish I had received when I was younger. I saw a really interesting post this week, Don't Call Yourself a Programmer. There is a lot of good stuff here. I

Railside Report and Publicly Funded Research

Railside Report and Publicly Funded Research

I read an interesting riposte to a popular but controversial education research report known as the Railside Report, after the pseudonym of one of the schools. [courtesy of the Education Realist] Following on the heels of Aaron Schwartz's suicide after his pillorying by the Justice Department, I thought

Tabata biking

A regrettably small sample size, but that is a pretty cool room-calorimeter they used for this experiment. Though other studies have shown that sprint interval training can markedly improve fitness and athletic performance, little was known about how this type of exercise affects energy expenditure, a factor that motivates many

Evolution

I just came across an essay by James Shapiro on new and unsettled questions in evolution. The article is written for the educated lay reader, so right about my level of sophistication in biology. There is a lot of interesting ferment in this area at present. A good part of

Boys and their toys

Christina Hoff Summers writes in the Atlantic on boys and their toys. The money quote: The problem with Egalia and gender-neutral toy catalogs is that boys and girls, on average, do not have identical interests, propensities, or needs. Twenty years ago, Hasbro, a major American toy manufacturing company, tested a

Sexual Economics

Not exactly what it sounds like, sexual economics is Roy Baumeister's term for looking at relations between men and women in terms of supply and demand. I've featured Baumeister's work on this blog before, but I was unaware of this aspect of Baumeister'

Well put, Steven

This book review is over 3 years old at this point, but it is worth re-reading: Steven Pinker on What the Dog Saw in the NY Times. Have you ever wondered why there are so many kinds of mustard but only one kind of ketchup? Or what Cézanne did before