Frederick Schmidt’s article, “Is it Time to Write the Eulogy? The Future of Seminary Education,” observes a number of problems with the present state of seminary education and suggested some sweeping changes to how M.Div. degrees are handled both by the church and by divinity schools. In the quest for academic respectability, seminaries have not [...] Read more »
Typing two spaces after a period is WRONG (and reflections on correction)
Slate has a nice piece up on why it’s totally, completely wrong to double-space after a period. I get this all the time in documents I edit—I usually just do a quick find/replace to eliminate all double-spaces from the document at the very start. I remain continually surprised at how many (even those who learned [...] Read more »
Children and Santa Claus – Lying or Harmless Fun?
It inevitably comes up every year: the question of how parents of young children should handle Santa Claus. For some, this is a highly impassioned subject; with many liking to remind everyone as often as possible that “Santa” is an anagram of “Satan”—or, if not giving this trite spelling lesson, at least asserting that Santa [...] Read more »
Participation Grades
James McGrath has brought up the question of whether participation grades are worthwhile or should be eliminated: I’ve tried to use participation grades and I’m thinking the time has come to ditch them and simply leave it up to the student to learn as they learn best. Students are different, and learn differently. I conditionally [...] Read more »
UCSB Physics Professor: “Global Warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life”
Looks like other fields have their Ronald Hendels also. UCSB physics professor Hal Lewis has made quite a stir with his letter of resignation from the American Physical Society, which rips the scientific community for following the money trail into “pseudoscience,” forsaking the integrity of the scientists of his generation. Whether one agrees or disagrees [...] Read more »
