Bangor Country Club Finally Bans Picnicking On Golf Course
Ten Reasons Not To Write Your Master’s Dissertation on Sexual Violence in War
A guest post, following on from some previous reflections on gender and teaching and the politics of pedagogy, from Marsha Henry. Marsha is Lecturer in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the LSE Gender Institute, where she teaches, amongst other things, a course on gender and militarism. Her most recent research is into sexual exploitation in peacekeeping missions and peacekeeper labour hierarchies, and she is also, with Paul Higate, author of Insecure Spaces: Peacekeeping, Power and Performance in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia (Zed, 2009). With Pablo, she recently co-edited a special issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics on ‘Rethinking Masculinity and Practices of Violence’. This post is based on a presentation given in San Francisco at the International Studies Association in April 2013.
It’s the first day of Lent term and the students are nervously gathered in a small stuffy classroom. When I walk in…
View original post 2,552 more words
As Maine’s Cemeteries Near Capacity, Governor Floats Idea Of Burials At Sea
If you’re a Mainer who doesn’t have any intention of dying soon, I hope you’re a fan of the ocean. The Society of Maine Undertakers and Gravediggers recently informed Governor LePage that the state is running out of space in its cemeteries.
While pundits have been bickering about how the state should deal with the problem, this Modern Philosopher has learned that Maine’s unpopular Governor has decided to present a plan that would make it mandatory for all future burials to be held at sea.
“Governor LePage has weighed several options,” my source in Augusta told me earlier, “and burial at sea seems like the best one. There’s plenty of ocean out there, and there hasn’t been a shark spotted off the coast of Maine in decades, so we don’t have to worry about our loved ones being eaten.”
I found it very hard to believe that burial at sea…
View original post 408 more words
Ten Reasons Not To Write Your Master’s Dissertation on Sexual Violence in War
A guest post, following on from some previous reflections on gender and teaching and the politics of pedagogy, from Marsha Henry. Marsha is Lecturer in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the LSE Gender Institute, where she teaches, amongst other things, a course on gender and militarism. Her most recent research is into sexual exploitation in peacekeeping missions and peacekeeper labour hierarchies, and she is also, with Paul Higate, author of Insecure Spaces: Peacekeeping, Power and Performance in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia (Zed, 2009). With Pablo, she recently co-edited a special issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics on ‘Rethinking Masculinity and Practices of Violence’. This post is based on a presentation given in San Francisco at the International Studies Association in April 2013.
It’s the first day of Lent term and the students are nervously gathered in a small stuffy classroom. When I walk in…
View original post 2,552 more words
Didn’t even know it 10 of 10
Bangor Country Club Finally Bans Picnicking On Golf Course
I’m Like the Hugh Jackman of the Blogging World
So, my daughter graduates from 5th grade this week. I won’t go into my opinion of the ridiculous lengths some schools and parents put into making the exit from elementary school (which is, after all, compulsory, so I am not sure how it qualifies as a major achievement) an event that would rival the Academy Awards.
I’m not going to talk about that because I have my own awards to acknowledge, and since I won them by working my butt off on stuff that isn’t required, (mostly because no one cares enough to require it) I figure they are far more legitimate than the congratulatory certificate my daughter will receive for completing the first phase of her mandatory education.
I should probably apologize to some of you because I think some awards may have fallen by the wayside during the last 6 months. When my medication was not working, I…
View original post 555 more words
George Box, the Accidental Statistician
great
George Box, renowned statistician, passed away on April 10 of this year at the age of 93. As the title of his recently released memoir suggests, he stumbled into the career that made him famous. During the Second World War, he was assigned to the Chemical Defence Experimental Station, located at Porten Down. From there, as he recounts,
[M]y job was to make biochemical determinations in experiments on small animals. The results I was getting were very variable, and I told Cullumbine that what we needed was a statistician to analyze our data. He said, “Yes, but we can’t get one. What do you know about it?” I told him I had once tried to read a book about it by someone called R.A. Fisher, but I hadn’t understood it. He said, “Well you read the book so you’d better do it.” So I said, “Yes Sir.” (Kindle Locations 750-754).
I found…
View original post 308 more words
owenatukunzire 