Transmission problems

Well, Murty has transmission problems on his WRX which is going to cost a bunch but I am talking about a different type of transmission problem.

This kind.

The perfect illustration for why historians have troubles with eyewitness accounts, oral history, legends, and recopied texts.


if it were easy it wouldn't be fun

Research

"Experts hired by USA Today to analyze a 2006 Congressional report that questioned global warming data say the report appears to have been plagiarized heavily from textbooks and Wikipedia."

I'd flunk them.

read the details.

Bloggers and research

Well, since I was preening about figuring out the economic uptick through intense research, and then blogging about it, here is another video by the world's greatest living philosopher discussing: blogging and research.



that sucks.

Reenacting the Civil War

It just ain't what it used to be.

My brother the Confederate Nut claims to know these guys from some reenactment or another.

but he's a stickler for details.

Research - a modest proposal

One of the contributors to National Review Online, George Leef, has a comment on the teaching v. research question that continually roils the upper reaches of our education system. It is a topic of some interest to my own department even as I type (when actually I should be doing some research).

In my view, for every published book or article that really makes a worthwhile contribution to knowledge in a field, there are dozens that make no contribution and wouldn't be written if it weren't for the obligation to get things in print. In a more sensible world, professors would be paid to teach and research work would mainly be done on a contract basis with those who want to fund it. [my emphasis]

Well, time is money and tempus fugit and all that.

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