El Espagnol reports “The rocambolesque story of the psychiatrist who ‘scammed’ the US and was sentenced to play the piano“. The news article begins [here machine-translated from Spanish to English]: An American psychiatrist has recently been reprimanded by the US Government Office of Integrity in Research, after having already been convicted. His crime: steal several […]
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The man who wants you to realize that reality is unrealistic
A professor cooks up some computer simulations, which convince him to try to convince everyone that reality is unrealistic. Amanda Gefter interviewed the professor, for The Atlantic magazine: “The Case Against Reality“. NEXT POST: Type A personality from a chair?
High-achieving professors’ brains – are they different (to low-achieving professors’)?
A new (and possibly unique) research project has performed detailed examinations of the physical structure of the brains of high-achieving university professors. More specifically, Chinese high-achieving university professors. Or, to be precise, male Chinese high-achieving university professors. Inspired (in part) by a 1999 study entitled ‘The exceptional brain of Albert Einstein’ (in: The Lancet, vol. 353, […]
Ig Nobel Prize winner Oppenheimer named the #1 business school professor
Fortune magazine tells how an Ig Nobel Prize winner was named the top young business school professor: The 10 top B-school professors under 40 Business school professors come in all stripes and colors. But the very best of the lot share a few common qualities: They are all supremely well educated, highly talented researchers, exceptional […]
“Creativity is worth a thousand words”, and professors of Creativity
Lesley University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has recently arranged for advertising billboards to appear in their (and our) neighborhood, featuring the slogan “Creativity is worth a thousand words“. Passersby must be creative in discerning the meaning, if any, of that slogan. Here’s a photo of one of the billboards (atop a building in Porter Square, Cambridge): Creativity At Lesley The […]
George Parrott the Snacker, and George Parrot the Shoes
George Parrott is in the news. George Parrot has been out of the news for a while. In the news (specifically, in the Sacramento Bee): Sac State students don’t have to bring snacks for professor Students of Sacramento State professor George Parrott won’t have to supply snacks anymore in order to be taught psychology. The […]
Denied a parking pass, professor ends career
Can this truly be the entire story behind Professor Danford W. Middlemiss‘s decision to end his academic career? CBC News reports: Dalhousie prof quits over parking A professor at Dalhousie University says a severe shortage of parking spaces at the Halifax school has forced him to quit. Dan Middlemiss [pictured here] and hundreds of other […]
Faculty action figures
Very few universities have had realistic ‘action figures’ made of their faculties and staff. One exception is the University of the Ozarks in Arkansas, where Dr. Jesse Weiss (Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies) has produced a collection of them. The professor hatched the idea via his hobby of customizing action figure models from […]
Professorial Pulchritude Update
“It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren’t, then I’d be a teacher.” – a quote which is attributed to supermodel Linda Evangelista in the 2003 research paper ‘Beauty in the Classroom: Professors’ Pulchritude and Putative Pedagogical Productivity’ (Economics of Education Review, 24(4): 369-376) A research team at the University of Texas, […]
Professorial Product Placement
“Viewing the latest Lady Gaga video, with its ten product placements, I’m inspired by the thought: Why don’t professors do product placements, too?” wonders Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at University of California at Riverside. There are, according to the professor, many potentially lucrative and as-yet-untapped opportunities – for example to promote products such as […]