I love that the scientists named their subs after The Neverending Story characters, and that the journalist made sure this info made it in

I had to google her, found her wikipedia article, accidentally swore loudly and scared my seatmate on the plane when I got to the "married to Alex Byrne" part

this is fantastic news! was just wondering about this with an MA student here who was really hoping there would be a chance to apply

on my mother's side

me either. I met with this teacher once, who insisted all students do poorly in math going from grade 9 to 10, and without thinking I asked, doesnt that mean curriculum or pedagogy is going wrong, if it is this is systematic? Shoulda thought before saying it, probably made it worse for my kiddo

We're encountering at kid's high school, some math teachers who think it reflects well on them that so many of their students do poorly. frustrating as a parent and also as a prof who gets a lot of these students in college and have wondered why they seem so traumatized by anything formal

Looking forward to seeing this event tonight! It is a fantastic fall weather day to be here, too

this is my situation as well. I want to put all the connected ideas together, but not make it book length, and I find how less suitable for e.g. an upper division or grad syllabus that makes it. I suspect I should work harder at carving ideas into smaller, more tightly constructed, papers

Sometimes they hang together as ideas. I was taught to break these into smaller papers then cite them, instead of making all the arguments in one longer paper. But that was before citation tracking on scholar. Folks junior to me seem to think citing your own paper is citation count padding

I think this is very reasonable and nothing to be concerned about. I've had some students talk me towards this way of thinking. I have fewer chances than I'd like to read, or write, and so more 'idea per paper' seemed good, but also is probably lazy writing on my part

Hard to book Mill for a talk these days, but you might be able to get Bentham