freedom

you gotta wear the pants

link: here

(side note: he's 6'7" -- the pants exist?)

this is kind of weird

The NYTimes reviews Daniel Dennett sailing?
or just a weird puff piece?

and how is "Freedom Evolves" a "play on" "Freedom Evolves"? Are they saying that Dennett is a continuous self-parody?

is becalming a technical problem?

first amendment law

yay!

my friend won his motion, so Gawker may now continue to publish a 1400 narrative of a Hulk Hogan sex tape.

more than I've done today. (I mean the motion-winning part. Or maybe the sex tape part. Whatever.)

"Dreams of Binghamton"

subjective genitive or objective genitive?

ask the WSJ

Workshop reminder

SPEL Professional Development Workshop

"Dossiers, esp. the Teaching part"

THU 25 APR, 11:45-1:00

LT 1210

mandatory for 1st and 2nd year students; recommended for all others

I can give up now

or I could work on a remedy for the other existential fears.

link: here
h/t: Kevin

Brown bag lunch this week

Thursday April 18, 11:45 - 1:00, location TBA.

Article: Seth Lazar, "Necessity in Self-Defense and War" 

brown bags not necessary

Efrain Cortissoz-Sanchez

yay baby.

SPEL picnic date set

End-of-year picnic:

May 11th, 1pm
usual location

yay

BCC to host bioethics program

article here: link

conference info: link

(Tony Preus is on the program: plenary session, 2:30 Sat 12 Apr)

moving to front: Colloquium this week

Kok-Chor Tan
University of Pennsylvania

"Injustice and Personal Pursuits"

THU 11 APR
5-7p
UUW 324

The NY Times is on it

no shit: Gap Widens for Faculty at Colleges

possibly superfluous and creepy?: Teacher Knows if You've Done the E-Reading

and isn't this the opposite of what we have an-almost built Center of Excellence for?: link
let's hope it doesn't work!
or we can just re-name the center (S3IP), which doesn't really fit the TAE anyway.

the dark side of pseudo-academia

on predatory journals and conferences

link: nytimes.com

different shoni

also not to be confused with this one

ha ha, ethics

the ethics of being an AD

capabilities approach?

though the best part is "you can't buy $50million worth of visibility." I'm pretty sure you can for $50mil (or maybe $45mil if you can get it on sale.)

graduate registration is open

Graduate student registration begins today, Friday, April 5. Undergraduate student registration begins at 9 a.m. Monday, April 8. Students have received communication directing them to check their registration start time (or time tickets) on BU BRAIN. Registration start time is based on the number of earned credit hours (in-progress courses are not included). Pre-registration closes at 11:59 p.m. Friday, May 10, the last day of spring 2013 classes.

(slowpokes and incoming students don't register until August, exact date TBD)

EDIT: THIS IS FOR FALL 2013, DUH

ANOTHER EDIT: HERE IS A CAT PICTURE B/C THIS IS THE INTERNET

SPEL Colloquium

Kok-Chor Tan
University of Pennsylvania

"Injustice and Personal Pursuits"

THU 11 APR
5-7p
UUW 324

power/philosophy

SPEL Workshop this THU

SPEL Professional Development Workshop
topic: "Writing the Damn Prospectus"

required for 2nd year students; optional (encouraged!) for all others.

THU 4 APR
LT 1210
11:45-1:00