Hotly Debated

LOL! This is a great post about the phrase “hotly debated” in an academic context. There’s lots of great stories about academics fighting over things. It turns out academia is just another form of fandom with better citation practices.

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Torture Doesn’t Actually Work

So does torture actually work for getting information? Basically, no. The effectiveness of torture as a means of extracting reliable information is widely debated and contested. Ethically and legally, torture is considered inhumane and is prohibited under international law, including the United Nations Convention Against Torture. While some proponents of…

School Food Stories

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Doorman Dan Stories

This is a great collection of stories about Doorman Dan. We should all be so luck to have co-worker this interesting! He sounds like an amazing dude and I 100% would watch a sitcom based on him: Source

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“This should be right up his alley” is the phrase that tipped me off. I studied biology in college. On some level (fortunately not one I subscribe to) I failed as a biologist because I did not find some impossibly specific biological subject on which to become the world’s foremost expert — the evolutionary taxonomy of (scientific name here) or the reproductive cycle of (scientific name here), that kind of thing.
Academia is another form of fandom with better citation practices and MORE SPECIAL INTERESTS. You can, depending on subject, get two academics with similar levels of advancement in the same field in a room and have them not know a THING about the subject the other specializes in. And that is the beauty and the horror of all this.

Christopher says:

April 19, 2024 at 3:09 pm

“This should be right up his alley” is the phrase that tipped me off. I studied biology in college. On some level (fortunately not one I subscribe to) I failed as a biologist because I did not find some impossibly specific biological subject on which to become the world’s foremost expert — the evolutionary taxonomy of (scientific name here) or the reproductive cycle of (scientific name here), that kind of thing.
Academia is another form of fandom with better citation practices and MORE SPECIAL INTERESTS. You can, depending on subject, get two academics with similar levels of advancement in the same field in a room and have them not know a THING about the subject the other specializes in. And that is the beauty and the horror of all this.

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Hotly Debated