The California Bar Exam begins next Tuesday. After a month+ of studying, I feel sort of ready. Unlike some recent law grads, I had a life pulling at me during my bar study time, so I simply wasn’t able to sign up to a service like Barbri that required hours of in-class lectures (often in front of a video screen, too, which certainly wasn’t appealing). So instead I turned to alternative approaches. The two I settled on were MicroMash (initially) and BarMax (finally).
Since at least McLean v. Arkansas in 1981, Creationists — Christian fundamentalists who oppose evolution — have turned, intriguingly, to philosophy of science to try to justify the inclusion of Creationism alongside evolution in science classrooms.
A consortium of research institutions is lobbying to extend the NIH open-access policy to other federally funded research.
Why is it that modern Protestant evangelicals and fundamentalists seem to struggle with accepting science today? Why does this struggle emerge especially around biology, particularly evolution? And why have many evangelicals turned to approaches like “Intelligent Design,” which instead of replacing science with religion, instead seeks to co-opt science within terms acceptable to Protestant evangelicalism?
A Greenpeace investigation has identified a little-known, privately owned US oil company as the paymaster of global warming sceptics in the US and Europe.
Copyright for Librarians is a useful resource for anyone–not just librarians–to learn about the current state of copyright law.
I don’t believe universities (in their best form, at least) are easily replicated by technological means of information dissemination. But despite the advantages their physicality and tradition offers, many universities have tended to see themselves as simply the means to fill students up with information, stick an “approved” stamp on them, and send them out into the world.
Kevin Kelleher of GigaOM believes that “books are becoming a fringe media.” I say: true for non-fiction, not so much for fiction.
I was surprised to read in the Chronicle of Higher Education that universities are still using Second Life, a “virtual worlds” system I honestly thought died in 2007. No one I know ever used it. Why is this, considering the people I know tend to be early adopters of pretty much everything technological?
Considering the time and investment I’ve made in law school, it seems insane to try to take the bar without some kind of prep course. So what are my options here in California?
I’m researching how the scientific and medical community presented and developed itself such that the public moved from rioting to cooperation with vaccination.
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