Random links
- Why academics annoy people
- "... I think it’s important for academics to interact regularly with those outside their field. We need to be familiar with the 'average person' (as if there is such a creature) so we can work to connect our research with their needs and interests. Instead, we routinely imply that they’re not very smart simply because they don’t happen to be experts in our particular fields of interest."
- Those Hyper-Politicized Evangelicals!
- "I don’t have figures for Muslims, but the only religious group that definitely had a lower percentage of sermons on political/social issues [than evangelical Christians] was, interestingly, the Mormons."
- The Certainty of Memory Has Its Day in Court
- "For scientists, memory has been on trial for decades, and courts and public opinion are only now catching up with the verdict. It has come as little surprise to researchers that about 75 percent of DNA-based exonerations have come in cases where witnesses got it wrong."
- Icy sidewalks snowball as Calgary’s top bylaw complaint
- Sometimes I wonder just how effective some of the snow clearing is. Scrape off a layer of ice, and as the temperature rises above zero for portions of a day, some of the snow melts trickling water over the sidewalk and then refreezing at night. That sort of things seems to lead to much more treacherous sidewalks than the snow falling directly on then. Do they need to come up with gutters for sidewalks?