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 […]
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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 […]
Random visitors — an observation
I apparently do sit at my desk just waiting for random people to stop by and ask me to do random things, and then insult me when I refuse. So writes the self-described Female Science Professor, after giving an example of the phenomenon.