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Month: March 2012

Evaluating student evaluations

March 30, 2012Rose Woodhouse 11 Comments

The Times has an article about professors who are seeking more frequent feedback from their students. A BU professor, Muhammad Zaman, asks for ratings from his students every other week and charts the results.

Uncategorized college teaching, Professor Zaman, student evaluations, university teaching

A very cautious guess about the spike in autism

March 30, 2012Rose Woodhouse

The CDC yesterday released a study showing that autism rates have spiked. 1 in 88 kids are affected. What the hell is going on? People have speculated about  possible environmental cause, as the president of Autism Speaks seemed (arguably) to… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized autism

On giving (other) parents the stinkeye

March 29, 2012Rose Woodhouse 20 Comments

So, lots of parents like to tell other people how to parent. Including me. But I’d like to remind myself and others that perhaps one should judge not, whether or not ye get judged. The whole story is not apparent.… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized parenting

Why I won’t be voting for Rick Santorum

March 29, 2012Russell Saunders 45 Comments

I’ll admit that the title of this post is a little bit disingenuous for a few reasons.  First of all, I would vote for a shaved ape before I voted for Rick Santorum, and I made my decision about him… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized rick santorum

I don’t know what your healthcare costs

March 29, 2012Russell Saunders 9 Comments

… and I’ll bet your doctor doesn’t, either. Okay, that’s is a bit of an overstatement.  I know what my little bit of my patients’ healthcare costs are.  I know what my practice charges for office visits and vaccines and… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy, patient care healthcare costs, Teaching Value Project

Selling stuff to kids

March 28, 2012Rose Woodhouse 79 Comments

Mark Bittman has an opinion blog post deriding the ability of food corporations to direct advertising to children. (An aside: how sad is it that Bittman has moved from the Minimalist column to opinion writing? His Minimalist column was a… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized advertising, advertising to children, ethics, obesity, TV

The angelicization of the developmentally disabled

March 27, 2012Rose Woodhouse 23 Comments

A point came up in the comments thread of my post on the Ashley treatment that I wanted to expand on a bit — talking about the developmentally disabled as “angels” of one sort or another. The parents of Ashley… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized developmental disabilities, disability, disability happiness, I/DD, parents of children with developmental disabilities

Semi-stupid Tuesday questions, Vincent Price edition

March 27, 2012Russell Saunders 7 Comments

This week’s question was inspired by a recent post over at brother-blog Mindless Diversions.  Once an indefatigable fan of the horror movie genre, Jaybird describes being put off them entirely by two movies he found deeply unsettling — “Event Horizon”… Continue Reading →

stupid tuesday questions Event Horizon, Michael Jackson, Mindless Diversions, thriller

Atheists, Don’t Unite!

March 26, 2012Rose Woodhouse 187 Comments

I’m an atheist, so there’s no one to whom I can pray to save me from the smugness of some of my fellow atheists. Apparently, some atheists held a rally over the weekend. You know, for atheists’ rights. Or something.… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized arguments for God, atheism, Reason Rally

Project Runway All Stars: an appropriately “meh” finale

March 26, 2012Russell Saunders 16 Comments

I already compared Project Runway All Stars to a less appealing menu item in my first post on the series, and so it would be lamentably uncreative to use the same comparison when summing up the finale.  However, that feeling… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized angela lindvall, Georgina Chapman, heidi klum, isaac mizrahi, michael kors, project runway, project runway all stars

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