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What Dancy’s Late Late Show appearance has to say about the philosopher’s disappearance | Andrew Taggart
Dr. Andrew J. Taggart, Philosophical Counselor, considers the role of the public philosopher and gives a shout out to our efforts here at CSID. On April 1, 2010, the professional philosopher Jonathan Dancy, who happens to be the father-in-law of … Continue reading
The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science
CSID Director Bob Frodeman has some suggestions about the interconnection of research & society in post-austerity world. Now that we’ve been driven off the “fiscal cliff,” perhaps we should look around and assess the results. It turns out that sequestration … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Broader Impacts, Economics & STEM Research, Public Pedagogy, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
Tagged austerity, broader impacts, economics, education, future of the university, knowledge, peer assessment, science, science & ethics, Sequestration, society, technology
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Physicist tipped for US energy post : Nature News & Comment
As the administration of US President Barack Obama prepares for a renewed push towards cleaner energy and reduced greenhouse-gas emissions, the White House appears to have chosen another physicist to head the effort. The leading candidate to replace departing energy … Continue reading
Influential few predict behaviour of the many : Nature News & Comment
To completely understand how a living organism works one would have to take it apart, the great physicist Niels Bohr once observed — but then the organism would certainly be dead1. In general, systems of high complexity, including living things … Continue reading
Open Access Creative Commons licences for Cambridge Journals « CJO « Cambridge Journals Blog
Cambridge University Press has announced today that articles in its Open Access journals can be published with a Creative Commons Attribution licence (‘CC-BY‘). This licence allows users and readers to download, read, re-use and re-distribute freely, as long as they … Continue reading
Posted in Basic News, Open Access
Tagged Cambridge, Cambridge Journals, CC-BY, Creative Commons, Finch Report, OA, open access, Press, publishing, RCUK, university, wellcome trust
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Open Access: What is it?
A video from PhD Comics. What is PhD Comics? Piled Higher and Deeper – Life (or the lack thereof) in Academia (also known as PhD Comics), is a newspaper and web comic strip written and drawn by Jorge Cham that follows the lives of several grad … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access
Tagged communication, copyright, digital scholarship, education, oer, open, pedagogy, policy, reflection, research, technology, technology and tagged academia
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Denton Drilling: Oh, Yes We Can!
The City of Denton is about to release a document explaining all the reasons why we can’t have a stronger ordinance to protect our health, safety, and welfare. The technicalities are complex, but the message is simple: No we can’t. … Continue reading
Posted in Gas Fracking
Tagged denton, gas drilling ordinance, gas fracking, shale gas, Texas
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The Mind of the Innovator: Radio Specials | KQED Public Media for Northern CA
NSF’s public radio doc “Mind of the Innovator” airs on KQED in San Francisco… Innovators begin with real-world problems and find solutions through technology, imagination, hard work and a drive to make our lives better. This special program from Richard … Continue reading
Denton Drilling: The End of Closed-Door Paternalism
“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.” -Martin Luther … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Environmental policy, Gas Fracking, Public Philosophizing, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security
Tagged Adam Briggle, City of Denton, communication, DAG, denton, exchange, fear, gas drilling ordinance, gas fracking, martin luther king, mlk, openness, paternalism, shale gas, Texas
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Innovation Is About Arguing, Not Brainstorming. Here’s How To Argue Productively | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
Turns out that brainstorming–that go-to approach to generating new ideas since the 1940s–isn’t the golden ticket to innovation after all. Both Jonah Lehrer, in a recent article in The New Yorker, and Susan Cain, in her new book Quiet, have asserted as much. … Continue reading
UNT Comic Studies Conference: March 22 & 23, 2013
CSID is proud once again to co-sponsor the biennial UNT Comic Studies Conference. You can download the FULL PROGRAM here. This meeting seeks to overcome the antiquated understandings of comic books as “children’s trash” with no redeeming or literary value. … Continue reading
Posted in Basic News, Calls for papers
Tagged anime, comic, comic studies, conference, DC, graphic novels, manga, Marvel, symposium
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Tiny creatures with the ability to walk on water | The Sun |News
Tiny creatures with the ability to walk on water | The Sun |News.
Posted in Basic News
Tagged ant, dew, environment, grasshopper, nature, nature news, photography, rain, snail, The Sun UK, Vadim Turnov, water
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After Kyoto: Special Issue of NATURE
On 1 January 2013, the world can go back to emitting greenhouse gases with abandon. The pollution-reduction commitments that nations made as part of the Kyoto Protocol will expire, leaving the planet without any international climate regulation and uncertain prospects … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Degrowth Economics, Environmental policy, Globalization, Philosophy & Politics, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
Tagged carbon, climate, climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas, Kyoto protocol
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The looming spectre of differential tuition
Someone can do the relatively simple accounting and see that the humanities–”majors without an immediate job payoff”–are already subsidizing those which have a “job payoff.” In fact, this was already done at few institutions, including UCLA. But this is a … Continue reading
More Scientists-Statesmen?
Only a handful of physicists have reached the halls of Congress. Bill Foster, a particle physicist and businessman just elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives from Illinois’s newly drawn 11th district, wants this situation to change. The … Continue reading
America’s secret fracking war – Salon.com
There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement. It’s a secret war being waged in the shadows while you go about your everyday life. In the end, … Continue reading
Posted in Broader Impacts, Climate Change, Economics & STEM Research, Environmental policy, Gas Fracking, Globalization, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
Tagged DAG, economics, economy, ecophilosophy, energy, environment, exploration, gas fracking, hydraulic fracking, hydraulic fracturing, jobs, war
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Climate Change & the Research Scientist
Does this make an argument for moving elite research centers–for which the Federal government & corporations pay out an enormous amount of money over many years–to areas that will be less physically hit by global warming… in like, I don’t know, North … Continue reading
Hacking Your Education, part 2
Second part of a talk given to UNT”s Seven Circles, the Interdisciplinary Student Association. Watch part one here.
Hacking Your Education, Part 1
First part of a talk given to UNT”s Seven Circles, the Interdisciplinary Student Association. Watch part two here.
On Live Tweeting Your Own Lecture – The Long Road
Autotweeting a lecture and getting folks actively involved through social media… Anyone who actually uses twitter recognizes that its power comes not from what one pushes out, but from what one receives. This is felt most palpably when one invites … Continue reading
Denton Drilling: Draft ordinance needs overhaul
Last night, about forty dedicated citizens gathered to review the draft gas drilling ordinance and generate ideas for how to improve it. There was one clear take home message: The draft ordinance is inadequate. It gets an F. We need … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental policy, Gas Fracking, Philosophy & Politics, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, Uncategorized
Tagged citizen committee, City of Denton, County of Denton, DAG, environmental issues, gas drilling ordinance, hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracturing, local policy, local politics, shale gas, Texas
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MesoFacts & Other Deteriorating Knowledges
[Samuel] Arbesman’s book expands on a piece he wrote in 2010 for the Ideas section of the Boston Globe. That short essay, called “Warning: Your reality is out of date,” laid out a theory of what Arbesman named the mesofact. “When people … Continue reading
Posted in New Books
Tagged facts, information, information proliferation, knowledge, knowledge production, macrofacts, mesofacts, microfacts, research
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Galaxy formation: The new Milky Way : Nature News & Comment
Astronomers are still arguing about the precise sequence of events during the Milky Way’s birth, but every-one agrees that the story began with dark matter. The stuff is everywhere, even though it is invisible and no one yet knows what … Continue reading
Posted in Basic News, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
Tagged big bang, galaxy, milky way, nature news, science
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Is fracking behind contamination in Wyoming groundwater? : Nature News & Comment
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sparked a firestorm in December last year when it released a draft report1 suggesting that the use of hydraulic fracturing — or ‘fracking’ — to extract natural gas had contaminated groundwater near Pavillion, Wyoming. Industry … Continue reading