Been following this one for a while now. This is one of my favorites. I also love the new logo.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve told people, “Any suggestion I could give would just be the result of me googling it.”
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And people wonder why I can’t stand academia.
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Terry Gilliam + Half the male actors I’ve ever had a man-crush on + Christopher Plummer (!) = I’m going to be at the cinema in October.
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This is the photographer’s blog post with an initial smattering of the pictures from my July 25th wedding to Michelle. More to come later, no doubt.
T. Herman Zweibel embraces globalization.
The angriest hootenanny you’ll ever see, courstesy of former Hillsdalian John Davidson and his band, The New Time.
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From a more dedicated blog I’ve been meaning to start for a while now, farnhamspeech:
I imagine most of you saw this piece – An Innovative Approach to the PhD Shortage: Wichita State University Offers Grants, Forms Partnership with Fort Hays State University - in the June 2009 ASHA Leader. If not, that’s why there’s a link.
I’m not entirely sure I agree with the assessment from the report cited here as to why there’s a PhD shortage, and what to do about it. Sure, financial incentive plays a part, and it’s possible that “‘Unrewarded’ work/service” taking away from time to publish does, too. Ultimately, though, it comes down to temperament and personality.
Speech-language pathology is a field that draws clinicians, not researchers. We’re drawn to this field because we have a knack and a desire to help individuals, as opposed to “people.” While we may understand the value in basing our practice on scientific evidence, we’re much more concerned with the evidence of whether something works for a given patient, client or child. The so-called ‘unrewarded’ tasks alluded to are what the vast majority of SLPs would find most rewarding. Publish or perish and the stuffy distinctions between assistant vs. associate professors are the kinds of things we would detest.
The “Crisis in the Discipline” is not that there are too few PhD candidates and graduates. There is no crisis. The perception of crisis stems only from the narrow, tired view that academicians have regarding what qualifies one to be an instructor in this discipline. Far from a crisis, the PhD shortage could be one of the best things to happen to speech-language pathology in ages, if it challenges our conceptions as to how research is conducted and how new clinicians are formed.
“I walk onto a terrace where I think I’m alone, / But Arthur Fonzarelli’s got an army of clones!” – Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version (via Michelle ♥).
John Hodgman, quizzing the President about Dune. (Link)
Actually just an awesome tilt-shifted time-lapse video somehow associated with UNIQLO. Pretty mesmerizing.
Let’s see Click & Clack pull off something like this:
Jeremy’s Extreme Ford Fiesta road test - Top Gear - BBC Autos (via TopGear)
Were it not for the hilariously earnest commentary, this would be the stuff of nightmares.
Also not exactly one that allows you to say “you should have seen the other guy.”
