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  • You Are Who You Eat With

    You Are Who You Eat With0

    Why do we make food? The obvious answer is so we can have food fights. Joking aside, when I reflect on my experience with the culinary arts – whether carefully crafting Buche de Noel for Christmas or whiling away a summer afternoon making flakey scones – food is ultimately about people and community. Yet it

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  • You are here Georgia Tech Prof. Resigns, Cites Politicization of Academia

    You are here Georgia Tech Prof. Resigns, Cites Politicization of Academia0

    A climate scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Judith Curry, abruptly resigned last week citing “craziness in the field of climate science” and the politicization of academia. Via her blog, Climate Etc.: Effective January 1, I have resigned my tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech…. Technically, my resignation is a retirement event, since I

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  • Yikes! One-Third of Americans Can’t Name ANY First Amendment Rights

    Yikes! One-Third of Americans Can’t Name ANY First Amendment Rights0

    On December 15, 1791, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were ratified, giving Americans their famed Bill of Rights. Sadly, many Americans don’t even know the freedoms they are guaranteed in the first and most famous amendment. According to the 2015 State of the First Amendment survey: “When asked to name the five specific

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  • Yet the Whos Sang Merrily

    Yet the Whos Sang Merrily0

    Last Christmas Eve, I was in the ER. My husband was deployed, and I’d been fighting a nasty illness for weeks. Things took a turn for the worse on Christmas Eve, and so my dad drove me to the hospital around 11 o’clock that evening. “This isn’t how Christmas is supposed to be,” I remember

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  • Yet More Proof That Academic Publishing Has Become a Scam

    Yet More Proof That Academic Publishing Has Become a Scam1

    Last year, a piece I did titled “Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads” generated some attention. In it, I pointed out what is commonly known among university professors today, namely, that most of the “peer-reviewed” essays and books they write are read by an extremely small handful of people (like 5-10, half of

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  • Yet More Evidence the SAT is Being Dumbed Down

    Yet More Evidence the SAT is Being Dumbed Down0

    We’ve been hearing for some time now that SAT scores are on the decline. For example, the year 2006 saw reading scores at 503, math scores at 518, and writing scores at 497. In 2016, however, the scores ran 494 for reading, 508 for math, and 482 for writing. When the scoring system change was

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