Arbitrary Marks

Links I’ve collected from the past week include some further discussion of language abuse in campaigns, both right and left (Language Log » Misinterpretation on the campaign trail), as well as a couple of articles about the prospects of completing one’s PhD as a minority (Ph.D. Completion Gaps :: Inside Higher Ed) or getting paid [...]

Here’s a selection of links I’ve accumulated over the past week:
LGBT
A news pundit who happens to be an out lesbian is being threatened with…a makeover! They’re talking about “putting her in a skirt” because, apparently, otherwise viewers might think she’s gay? Erm, not sure what’s going on here.
Philosophy
A controversial article in Inside Higher Ed claims [...]

It’s Sunday afternoon, I’m at Dolce Vita in Austin reading the Sunday Times, and it’s the day for my first weekly link roundup. Most, but not all, of the links I’ll feature here are on my del.ico.us account. Later on in the week, I hope to post some discussion of what I’ve been reading–mostly [...]

Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod. - NYTimes.com
"She speculated that professors might try harder to make classes interesting if they were competing with the devices" - because they're not already working hard enough.
(tags: education)

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The Misshapen Mind: How the Brain's Haphazard Evolution Left Us with Self-Destructive Instincts | | AlterNet
Book reviews of two n ew works on evo-psych.
(tags: books)

Does air conditioning make people vote Republican? (Salon Life)
Could explain Texas?
(tags: news.articles)

Buddhism and Homosexuality (Buddhist Channel)
Editorial by Ven Shravasti Dhammika
(tags: buddhism.popculture)

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Grade Inflation — Crooked Timber
Book review and discussion of grade inflation's existence.
(tags: education)

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Let’s get clear about materialism (Slingerland at the Immanent Frame)
Slingerland recently wrote about religion and reductionism in the American Academy of Religion Journal, with some references to Buddhism as well.
(tags: philosophy.mind philosophy.religion philosophy.blogs)

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Experimental Philosophy: What are Intuitions?
Resources in current analytic philosophy on the question “What are intuitions?”
(tags: philosphy.epistemology)

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‘Teaching Nonmajors’ (Inside Higher Ed)
A new book offers advice on teaching these students. Teaching Nonmajors: Advice for Liberal Arts Professors (State University of New York Press) is by P. Sven Arvidson, a senior faculty fellow at the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Seattle University
(tags: education)

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Out of Work for Doing Extra Work? (Inside Higher Ed)
Adjuncts beware - adding supplemental materials to a course in order to clarify material might be grounds for firing…
(tags: education philosophy.jobmarket)

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