MSU gets $2 million grant to help soldiers become teachers – Gail Schontzler, Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Montana State University received a $2.1 million federal grant Wednesday to expand training programs for soldiers who want new careers as school teachers. The money from the U.S. Department of Education will help 10 or more Western states create […]

Harrison Bergeron. Kurt Vonnegut Jr's “Harrison Bergeron” was one of those short stories that blew me away as a kid and i find myself still referring to it. In talking about identity online with two friends tonite, we got into a conversation about how digital tools create certain handicaps that, in theory, might place everyone […]

Spinger has sprung…. Had a great meeting with folks from Springer… a big german publisher. Lots of other folks there I should mention, but I've not got the list here. It was great and it looks like there are interesting opportunities in the… [Words – big ones and little ones…] —- history in the making

“This madness will not stop….”. Here's a pleasingly blunt essay which takes the radical position that everyone–not just Americans–have moral standing. (I think Jesus Christ… [The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates] The essay brings up things we would rather not want to look at. Might does not make right. The Iraqi people did not attack […]

He's our science president, all right… [Pharyngula] More about the research priorities of this Administration. Not a good legacy. [A Man with a Ph.D. – Richard Gayle's Weblog] —- could be. he certainly has done everything in his power to turn american science into part of the military industrial complex.

Takin' My Country Back. I don't know much about country music, so I can't tell if this song is any good, but I like the idea of it… And here's a one-minute remix of Bush's performance at the first debate. The remix is called “Hard Working George.” (Thanks, Mike O'Dell for the first link and […]

this is a very handy site covering all manner of professional and research codes of ethics.

Juris my diction crap. The smoking of Cuban cigars has been illegal in the US since the time of Kennedy – though the day before he signed the law into effect he did have Pierre Salinger buy up all the Petit Upmanns in Washington… [Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent] A new US Treasury ruling states that […]

Hersh: bullet in your back. A chilling account of a recent talk by the New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, describes a phone call he received from a first lieutenant in Iraq. The lieutenant's platoon had been stationed outside a quite agricultural town for some time, near a granary. The granary owner had hired a bunch of […]

Researchers Say They're Denied Access to E-Voting Records. Political-science professors say their attempts to analyze online voting have been hamstrung by organizations that have withheld data from elections that were held online. (Associated Press) [Chronicle.com – The Wired Campus] —- this is not surprising, not at all. suddenly public records are privatized?