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January 14, 2007
Housecleaning
Have gotten the ol' big-blog blogroll sorted. Zuska moved onto ScienceBlogs a LONG time ago, and it took me way too long to update her link. Revisiting Zuska reminds me that I haven't written about science or gender/race issues in academia in darn near forever. I think this is the point where I blame the teaching load and just move on.
I've added the blogs of Dr. Shellie, Natalie Stadnick, and - a blog I have not found to this point for reasons I simply cannot understand - one of my academic heroes, Carmen Butcher. (Carmen also now has a MySpace page. I'm convinced that the friend requests from all corners I received in the past 24 hours are DIRECTLY related to this internet-shattering event, and are mere testament to the sheer unadulterated coolness of Carmen Butcher.)
I wish I knew, with WesleyBlog sitting dormant, who was in charge of the Methodist Blogroll. (Is that link an attempt to get cheap trackback so that Mr. Raynor will acknowledge my existence? Mmmmmm, could be.)
I really wish there was a sports blog out there that was as intelligent as the Sports Frog, but less of a boy's club.
And back to Dr. Shellie for the last word on the night, and what I think is a very good quotation from a very interesting little talk:
But most of all, I ask myself questions like this: am I smart enough to do science? Am I smart enough to work on the problems I am working on? Am I smart enough to find the answers? I have a female grad student, and she is very smart. She also doesn’t seem to ask herself questions like this. So one day I asked her– how do you know you are smart enough to do science?...She said this: ‘the length of time it takes me to solve a problem never exceeds the length of time that I am interested in it.’ I thought that was a pretty good answer.
It is, it is.
Posted by Chuck at January 14, 2007 10:29 PM
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