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How do academia and industry collaborate?
Ask MetaFilter —
Authority: 650
Im looking for non-traditional collaboration models between academia and industry (any field) or between companies/consortiums. Any pointers? As a personal project Im trying to map out how academia and industry collaborate. It seems to me the de facto model is one in which academia either works on specific projects ...2 hours ago -
Guest Post: The Duel of Ali ibn Abu Talib with Amru ibn Abd Wudd
zenpundit.com —
Authority: 125
Charles Cameron has been guest blogging here in a series on radical Islamism and terrorism. A former researcher with the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, his most recent essay, an analysis of the powerpoint presentation of Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan , appeared in the ...4 hours ago -
Essential Education: Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption
Education Innovation —
Authority: 411
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17 Tweets about the ISTE conference keynote
Dangerously Irrelevant —
Authority: 554
Today there was what I thought was an engaging Twitter conversation about the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project . Here is the general idea in 17 Tweets… First, I posted about the latest standings and some backchannel grumblings I’ve been hearing: Then I heard from John Larkin and Jen ...10 hours ago -
Homa Katouzian: how the West should deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions
GlobalComment —
Authority: 576
Professor Homa Katouzian is an specialist on Iran, teaching at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. Trained as an economist, Dr. Katouzian has a broad range of interests including Iranian history and literature. His latest book is The Persians: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Iran (Yale ...12 hours ago -
Against SEMAT
Catenary —
Authority: 104
There is a call for action making the rounds among software researchers. You may have heard of it: it goes by the name of SEMAT (Software Engineering Method and Theory); Ivar Jacobson presents it as a “revolution” whose “goal is to re-found software engineering as a rigorous discipline.” You can read the call ...13 hours ago -
The Gorecical, should be arrested for fraud.
Boudica BPI Weblog —
Authority: 131
Climategate – CRU Source Code Confirms AGW Fraud From Hacked Documents I discuss the actual source code that was released in the recent hack of the CRU. The source code confirms the manipulation of climate data by climate scientists. http://fascistsoup.com/2009/11/23/cli.. Update – Climategate – CRU ...14 hours ago -
Hacking the Holiday, Academic Edition
Bitch. Ph.D. —
Authority: 514
Like many of my academic cohort, I can be quite bad at managing my work. To the tun of being bad at quarantining work-free times/paces for myself. As is often noted, tis the nature of the academic job. Which is why I feel pleased to report that I have just had my first ever (well, since being in grad school) work-free ...15 hours ago -
Leftist Thought Led To Fascism – And Is Doing So Again
Start Thinking Right —
Authority: 475
Liberals think that the title of Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism is an oxymoron. They’re wrong. Goldberg himself writes: “For more than sixty years, liberals have insisted that the bacillus of fascism lies semi-dormant in the bloodstream of the political right. And yet with the notable and ...17 hours ago -
ClimateGate Hack Scientists Michael Mann To Be Reviewed By Penn State University
theblogprof —
Authority: 681
Michael Mann is the creator of the now discredited "hockey stick" graph. Ive mentioned the famous hockey stick graph several times on this blog, most recently, at least before ClimateGate, in September when it was discovered that the data was cherry-picked to show something that wasnt there ( Confirmed! Global warming ...19 hours ago -
Do it with conviction
Sybilla Oritur —
Authority: 104
I’ve found myself defending my respect for the faith of men like Descartes, Pascal, Newton and - most importantly - St. Francis of Assisi. The rosary i picked up from Assisi along with the Assisi rock i use as a paperweight out of reverence for someone who believed in something, something good, so strongly he ...21 hours ago -
11-29 ISTE conference keynote update - Some backchannel grumbling
Dangerously Irrelevant —
Authority: 554
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project . Jeff Piontek has widened his lead a bit more over Chris Lehmann. Alan November has claimed the lead in a category and Karl Fisch is pulling away from Michael Wesch. Does it matter if a nominee nominated himself? Does it matter ...23 hours ago -
USC 28, UCLA 7
LA Observed —
Authority: 660
The Trojans dominated in a sloppy game by both sides, but what theyll be talking about for days (at least) is this: USC throwing a touchdown bomb one play after taking a knee to signify it was playing out the clock, followed by a demonstrative celebration on the USC sideline — then the entire Bruins team swarmed ...1 day ago -
social science articles in science
orgtheory.net —
Authority: 519
From the Home Offices in London and Paris, François has compiled a list of social science articles that have appeared in Science . Interesting list. Do you think there’s a pattern?1 day ago -
Scientists are Not Software Engineers
Chicago Boyz —
Authority: 649
The real shocking revelation in the Climategate incident isn’t the emails that show influential scientist possibly engaging in the disruption of the scientific process and possibly even committing legal fraud. Those emails might be explained away. No, the real shocking revelation lays in the computer code and data ...1 day ago -
No One Peer Reviews Scientific Software
Chicago Boyz —
Authority: 649
Recent revelations that the peer review system in climatology might have been compromised by the biases of corrupt reviewers misses a much greater problem. Most climatology papers submitted for peer review rely on large, complex and custom computer programs to produce their findings. The code for those programs is ...1 day ago -
Plagiarising Myself. Not.
UBIWAR —
Authority: 432
I’m all for cracking down on plagiarism in academia. I don’t like it. It’s dishonest and, if intent can be proved, then the offender should be pitched out on their ear at the first opportunity. I support the various electronic means for ensuring that student papers are original but they can throw up some ...1 day ago -
He’s Got a Point
California Conservative —
Authority: 430
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He’s Got a Point
Let Freedom Ring —
Authority: 139
It isn’t often that I agree with Eugene Robinson but this time, I agree with him. His column E-mails Don’t Prove Warming is a Fraud is actually right, though not for the reasons he says. Stop hyperventilating, all you climate change deniers. The purloined e-mail correspondence published by skeptics last ...1 day ago -
Climate Science and the Inner Ring
Chicago Boyz —
Authority: 649
It now seems clear that many climate scientists have shown a most unscientific lack of interest in following the data wherever that data may lead, coupled with an unwholesome eagerness to disregard and to disrespect the opinions of anyone outside of a closed circle of “experts.” In comments on a NYT blog ...1 day ago

