Provocative article from Newsweek about "Why doctors hate science". Where is evidence-based medicine (and software engineering) when you need it? Speaking of software engineering, Grady Booch has voiced all his "On Architecture" columns. The seventh one "The Irrelevance of Architecture" should be familiar to my former software engineering students: the users don't care how you built it.
Meterorite-hunters have found a debris field from the recent falling object in Texas. You have to scroll down a little for the pictures and a description of what they found.
Finally, slightly disturbing but not surprising things about how we make decisions. First, dating and poltics:
- Milisecond speed dating
- unconsciously choosing leaders based on looks, and
- men prefer red (maybe the first legitimate research using hotornot.com).
- What do e-portfolios share with Oakland? I'm pretty sure the quote is about Oakland and not Los Angeles. And,
- what really goes on with peer review. Here's a quote from Michele Lamont, from an Inside Higher Ed article:
One of the key findings was that professors in different disciplines take very different approaches to decision making. The gap between humanities and social sciences scholars is as large as anything C.P. Snow saw between the humanities and the hard sciences.
Yikes. She even mentions C.P. Snow.
Many humanities professors, she writes, “rank what promises to be ‘fascinating’ above what may turn out to be ‘true.’ ” She quotes an English professor she observed explaining the value of a particular project: “My thing is, even if it doesn’t work, I think it will provoke really fascinating conversations. So I was really not interested in whether it’s true or not.”
