Monday, August 06, 2007

Sky academics   posted by Razib @ 8/06/2007 07:15:00 PM
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In light of the previous post, Climate and civilization follow-up, I have to post a link to this article, Inner-city smarts honed in Rockies.

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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Language families in maps & trees   posted by Razib @ 4/04/2007 07:58:00 PM
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This page has a bunch of language maps and phylogenies. Nothing you couldn't find in Wikipedia, but, all in one spot.

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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Lab courses & MRI & Neutral Theory   posted by Razib @ 3/29/2007 10:06:00 AM
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RPM has a long post about the importance of lab courses (in response to a philosopher with some background in physics who suggests doing away with undergraduate lab courses) and Aziz points out that the father of magnetic resonance imaging has died.

Update: From the author of the original post (in the comments):
Actually, I don't advocate doing away with undergraduate labs. Undergraduate labs, done well, can be valuable and are essential in training undergraduate majors in the sciences. What I argue is that the attitude prevailing at many institutions that every or most theory classes needs a corresponding lab keeps science departments from being able to teach classes that would be of great value to students, especially non-majors.


Update II: Also, I'd be remiss in not pointing to RPM's excellent intro post to Neutral Theory (check out the graphs!).

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