I teach qualitative research methods to business students (who are mostly quants), and one of the principle I try to bring home is that stats are always affected by things outside the stats, and you need to be asking (qualitative) questions about those things before taking the stats as factual.
Good morning! I'm reading House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky-- it's a long read (600+ pages) but worth it, it's like M*A*S*H meets Small Gods.
Heads-up: we're heading into pre-publication exciting stuff for Rabbit in the Moon, my forthcoming cli-fi novel about an epic road trip through two universes. Sign up to the publisher's mailing list here for cover reveals, preorder details and other fun things! eepurl.com/hOcL-5.
At this precise moment, Doctor Who writer Andrew Smith has just set of on his first full marathon at Loch Ness. He's running for the Lily Foundation, and you can help him get over his fundraising target here www.justgiving.com/page/andrew-...
Help Andrew Smith raise money to support The Lily Foundation
Oh wow. I knew about ancient Egyptian labour unions thanks to China Mieville, but not that the Romans had them too.
New on my blog: "Star Maidens: The Perfect Couple" takes us back into German sex comedy mode, as Adam and Fulvia try a gender-flipped lifestyle in suburbia, a feminist Baader-Meinhof gang try to take over the Earth, and it's all about... apartheid? adoctorofmanythings.wordpress.com/2024/09/25/s...
Back on Earth and back into German sex comedy mode, as Adam decides that the best way to stay on Earth is to convince Fulvia he still loves her and that they can have a better time on Earth than on Me...
I read it at age 13 and it was a revelation-- the main revelation being, "feminism can be funny! Who knew?"
As a professor in a b-school I see the consequences of this mentality far too often.
finally, a higher ed opinion piece about “college as job prep” written from a student perspective. worth reading. gift link.
Economic anxieties are generating crushing pre-professional pressure on campuses, destroying college life and damaging students’ mental health.
The number of times on FB that I've seen something I want to read, and then the feed autorefreshes and I lose it... I can sometimes find it again if I happened to notice the name of the poster, but that's not guaranteed.
The Babylon 5 Bagna Cauda recipe is the second most popular one on my blog...
