Tag: Tenure
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Reprint on tenure
Looking for a href on tenure to reinforce previous item on UATX bait and switch, found this from 2020. It’s a pretty good general roundup of the problem and the solution. = = = = = START REPRINT: Some people are starting to catch on to a chronic long-standing problem, which has become acute and…
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Parallax
This author looks at the new allegedly planned Austin “freedom university” from a Catholic perspective. It’s mostly outside of my secular understanding, but her suspicions end up pretty much the same as mine. We’re marking the same target from different angles. The Catholic viewpoint: UATX is strictly within the Enlightenment framework, with no centerpoint of…
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Analog people
Speaking of professional critics vs reality…. The Harris Poll shows about 2/3 of Americans approve Elon’s takeover of Twitter. Sharp comments by the CEO of Harris: It’s a reminder that the views of Twitter’s blue-checkmarked class, professional pundits, and journalists often diverge from the views of most Americans. Perhaps they should spend less time interacting…
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Explicit tag
I’ve been using the Entertainment tag on the UFO and Fortean items lately. I should make the connection more explicit. The Forteans were trying to pull science back into the realm of entertainment and mystification and fascination. Their constant theme, starting with Charles Fort himself, was that Big Science is no longer observing Nature with…
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Media puzzle
Trying to sort out a meaningless puzzle. Part of the 1965 ‘banner year’ or Grand Finale for UFOs happened in Okla and Kansas. In August a chain of sightings ran from Chickasha to Wellington to Wichita to KC, including some radar readings at TV stations in Wichita and KC. If the group was seen in…
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It’s all about caste
Headline at MindMatters: Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe In Carl Sagan’s Contact, the extraterrestrials embedded a message in the irrational number pi (the circumference of a circle divided by its radius). But some other numbers are critical to the structure of our universe too — and why they are critical does…
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Outlaw intellectuals
Kirn’s latest pithy point: My studied belief is that America’s greatest wealth is its oddballs, weirdos, seers, compulsives & autodidacts. They’ve transformed science, business, religion & the arts. Making more space, not less, for nonconformity & improvisation is the way of prosperous peaceful flourishing. This wasn’t true of the whole country, and it’s no longer…
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Sort of halfway self-solving
Wolf’s latest item about credit includes some disheartening stats. Earlier it appeared that Americans were taking advantage of the Federal blood money to reduce their credit card debt. Now they’re doing the opposite. Wolf also includes a simple chart of college debt. Unlike most graphs that go exponential under the demonic influence of the exponential…
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Provocative but not quite true
Kirn’s latest Provocative Point: Speech and expression are most suppressed and regulated in academia and the media, where you’d think they would be freest. The culture has basically seized up and died in those places. For a revival of the creative spirit we must look to bodegas, casinos, tire shops, and hair salons. “You’d think”,…
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Still uneasy
Speaking of cancelling reminded me of the university now being organized by the Famous Cancelleds. When I looked at their website in November, it was all future plans, and felt like vaporware. Now there’s one class or seminar firmly scheduled: Our Forbidden Courses summer program invites top students from other universities to join us for…
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