Comments on: Around the Web

By: Richard Irvine

Richard Irvine — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:04:35 +0000

Hehe, I can imagine some of the people here bristling at the idea of someone only being able to post a “snippet” of her own thoughts because of concerns over copyright and the AAA. Horrible thing not to own your own opinions.

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:22:09 +0000

Thanks for the nudge. My post was mostly personal reaction to a current trend in mainstream science media. It does relate to the way we teach, especially in introductory courses.

By: BJG

BJG — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:28:06 +0000

The pictures on the San Diego story – gosh, “mock-Iraqis” cleverly distinguished from baseball-cap wearing US troops :/
The book list – I’m going to head off Jared Diamond comment by mentioning that I’d be very tempted to add Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie’s Carnival in Romans. I read it at the same time as I was writing my thesis after research in an FCO archive and it really helped me think a bit more historically. Historians may completely disagree, but I thought it was a nice example of actor-centric writing i.e. not just Character X does Y and then … but rather dealing with a lot of the “why?” including how a personality or background might have lead an action to occur or a decision to be made.