Bruce Gilley's Blog, page 75
March 16, 2022
RT by @BruceDGilley: @BBCNews claims the lack of media coverage for an obscure athlete who took illegal drugs into Russia "lays bare the clear inequities faced by female athletes" and compares to coverage of Tom Brady and Novak Djokovic. Where to even star
@BBCNews claims the lack of media coverage for an obscure athlete who took illegal drugs into Russia "lays bare the clear inequities faced by female athletes" and compares to coverage of Tom Brady and Novak Djokovic. Where to even start?
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada…
RT by @BruceDGilley: Attendees at this @OregonState
conference on "Indigenous knowledge" must promise to have tribal approval for everything they say and not share "sacred or sensitive" facts. Science or fear of science?
https://tekatosu.wordpress.com/
Attendees at this @OregonState
conference on "Indigenous knowledge" must promise to have tribal approval for everything they say and not share "sacred or sensitive" facts. Science or fear of science?
tekatosu.wordpress.com/home/…
March 15, 2022
A propos my recent talk on junk citation practices, including attempts to impose "citation justice" on science, this self-styled "feminist, anti-colonial, marine science laboratory" (no joke) by @MaxLiboiron has a project dedicated to this (no joke).
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A propos my recent talk on junk citation practices, including attempts to impose "citation justice" on science, this self-styled "feminist, anti-colonial, marine science laboratory" (no joke) by @MaxLiboiron has a project dedicated to this (no joke).
civiclaboratory.nl/citationa…
March 14, 2022
"We now live in a period where some Americans, who would not be caught dead flying Old Glory, are displaying the flags of countries they cannot even find on a map."
https://americanmind.org/salvo/here-b...
"We now live in a period where some Americans, who would not be caught dead flying Old Glory, are displaying the flags of countries they cannot even find on a map."
americanmind.org/salvo/here-…
March 13, 2022
Comments from flyover country?
Comments from flyover country?
Ultra-draconian lockdown going into effect in Shanghai including city border controls and one shopping trip every other day per household.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Cor...
Ultra-draconian lockdown going into effect in Shanghai including city border controls and one shopping trip every other day per household.
asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Co…
If only they had done so, avoiding hundreds of MILLIONS of lives of human misery in post-colonial places formerly under Portuguese mild rule
If only they had done so, avoiding hundreds of MILLIONS of lives of human misery in post-colonial places formerly under Portuguese mild rule
March 12, 2022
Former US intelligence officer who studied the Soviet Union now sees the same totalitarianism on US college campuses.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/163006226X/...
Former US intelligence officer who studied the Soviet Union now sees the same totalitarianism on US college campuses.
amazon.com/dp/163006226X/ref…
March 10, 2022
RT by @BruceDGilley: In Memoriam: Yulia Zdanovskaya, a 21-year old mathematician, was killed on March 8th, 2022 during a Russian forces attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 2017, Yulia represented Ukraine at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad and won a si
In Memoriam: Yulia Zdanovskaya, a 21-year old mathematician, was killed on March 8th, 2022 during a Russian forces attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 2017, Yulia represented Ukraine at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad and won a silver medal at the competition.
March 9, 2022
Michael Bérubé on "academic freedom": "That's where the universities come in, and if we can protect them from outside influence, we can protect this sphere in which good ideas and bad ideas don't get equal time... It's not a marketplace of ideas."
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Michael Bérubé on "academic freedom": "That's where the universities come in, and if we can protect them from outside influence, we can protect this sphere in which good ideas and bad ideas don't get equal time... It's not a marketplace of ideas."
democracyworks.simplecast.co…
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