Not sure how I missed this one.
Not sure how I missed this one.
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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
December 13th, 2014 at 10:12AM
Uh, what possible excuse could there be for using such a stupid picture in the first place
December 13th, 2014 at 11:08AM
Wrong on so many levels:
gory
creepy
gruesome
misogynistic
disturbing
for fifth graders
obscene
teaching physics to fifth graders
stupid
….
December 13th, 2014 at 1:10PM
They’ll do anything to get kids to study physics…
December 13th, 2014 at 1:19PM
That image easily could be part of a 21st century Garden of Earthly Delights.
December 15th, 2014 at 10:53AM
Perhaps this is a new approach to teaching physics that avoids the patriarchal, authoritarian methods of the past, following the lead of feeling-based math?
Farmer Brown is selling two steers at market. Live cattle sell at $162 per hundred pounds, and Farmer Brown’s steers together weigh 2500 lbs.
Old math question: how much will Farmer Brown receive for his cattle?
New math question: how do you feel about Farmer Brown’s participation in the exploitation and murder of animals?
The new physics (?)
The radius of a blender’s blade is 3 cm. The blade spins at 5000 rpm for 1 minute.
Old question: how far does one tip of the blade travel?
New question: explain how the blender symbolizes the grinding domestic oppression of women at the hands of men suffused with rape culture propagated by the resistance of late-capitalist ideology to its inevitable collapse.