- “[Y]ou must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with…a herring.” (More or Less Bunk) On the fatuity of peer grading on Massive Open Online Courses
- Smart Writing (The Weekly Standard) Academic writing style
- Your Scientific Reasoning Is More Flawed Than You Think (Scientific American) The problem of replacing wrong understandings (cf. Learning as Loss but without the emotional investment.)
- José Beltrán Escavy on Peculiar English How to describe nuclear physics in English with only germanic roots...
- Begging questions about philosophy, science and everything else (Evolving Thoughts) Using "begging the question" in its proper sense.
- Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science The Observer) Excellent short exposition of what Kuhn actually said, on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- (BPS Research Digest:) How happiness campaigns could end up making us sadder Hooray! Permission to be miserable! Oh, and reason to be: Five Best: England in Decline (WSJ.com) by John Sutherland
- (A.Word.A.Day) Quote from Vonnegut on "moderate giftedness" In the era of the Olympics and Paralympics and mass communication, the devaluation of ordinary talent.
- Clever Bird Goes Fishing (YouTube) In case you thought some of the crow experiments were contrived (they were), here's intelligence in the wild.
- Cartoons from the Issue of September 3rd, 2012 (The New Yorker) The first one, "My poor choice of words" is an academic's apology.
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