At Bard College, a Plan to Teach Teachers More of What They're Teaching. The president of Bard College is starting a master's program for prospective high school teachers that will address a common complaint: that teachers do not know enough. By Karen W. Arenson. [New York Times: Education] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

Scientists pinpoint ingredients for 'feelgood Christmas' [Ananova: Quirkies]

DASER presentations. The presentations from the DASER Summit (Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 21-23, 2003) are being put online. DASER = Digital Archives for Science and Engineering Resources. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) [Open Access News]

Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Kenan Sahin (Tech Review, via WSJ) writes about the “innovation backlog” in the US and makes suggestions which we in India could do well to learn and adopt: —-cut—- Loosen university intellectual-property rules: University-based research thrived in the 1980s and '90s because of extensive company sponsorships that spawned new innovations, as well […]

Captured And Probably Not Invited For Christmas Dinner At The Ranch In Crawford Texas. Captured And Probably Not Invited For Christmas Dinner At The Ranch In Crawford Texas Seems they've captured Saddam Hussein. [Halley's Comment]

Happy little pop songs about going to hell. My assistant, The Fabulous Lorraine told me that her band were being interviewed by Euan Kerr for Minneapolis Radio. Here's an article you can read on it, with links. You can also listen to the radio piece on them at the MPR site. (The article doesn't mention […]

3.ÊDean, Gov. Howard, VT – Democrat ÊÊ(79%) 4.ÊClark, Retired General Wesley K., AR – Democrat ÊÊ(76%) 5.ÊKucinich, Rep. Dennis, OH – Democrat ÊÊ(73%)Ê 6.ÊEdwards, Senator John, NC – Democrat ÊÊ(71%)Ê 7.ÊGreen Party Candidate ÊÊ(68%)Ê 8.ÊGephardt, Rep. Dick, MO – Democrat ÊÊ(64%)Ê 9.ÊSharpton, Reverend Al – Democrat ÊÊ(57%)ÊÊ 10.ÊKerry, Senator John, MA – Democrat ÊÊ(56%)ÊÊ 11.ÊLieberman, […]

From La Cucaracha [Politics in the Zeros]

Big River. Via Kos: The 10 Regions of US Politics Our regions are based on voting returns from both national and state elections, demographic data from the US Census, and certain geographic features such as mountain ranges and coastlines.Each region represents about… [Eat Your Vegetables] ——- and really my whole life according to this map, […]

Women Internet Researchers. This is something I have been meaning to do – compile a list of women researching the internet – and here it is via misbehaving. Cyber Studies Resources – women internet researchers by Nicola Doering, here “you (will) find a list of women who think and write about the Internet, mostly from […]