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Thursday, 18 March 2010
Professor Peter Aczel
Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Manchester
Peter Aczel argues for a plurality of conceptual frameworks, coherence. Does he mean multiple foundations?
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Thursday, 18 March 2010
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Monday, 1 March 2010
Young beard of the Month, Mr. Cosgrove is a Research Fellow at the Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking Mr Cosgrove has a unique background. He is one of very few students who have been systematically taught critical thinking from the age of 10. It was at this age that he was taken from the main stream of instruction and put into an independent study program designed and supervised by Drs. Paul and Elder.
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Thursday, 25 February 2010
A feline subject reacts to a photograph of a man with a full dark semicircular beard.
Abstract
Interpretation
Cats do not like men with long beards, especially long dark beards.
Cats are indifferent to men with shorter beards.
Cats are confused and/or disturbed by men with beards that are incomplete (e.g., Bork) and to a lesser degree by men whose beards have missing parts (e.g., Crafts).
These interpretations are not categorical. They are subject to several obvious qualifications. The most notable are listed below.
Qualification A. This study excluded photographs of men with beards confined largely to the underside of the jaw (see above discussion of Robert Bork). While data are available from studies conducted by other investigators, those studies made use of a different methodology than the one we used in our study. We are therefore hesitant to interpret our findings in light of the "Bork" findings, or vice versa.
Qualification B. This study was conducted with photographs of bearded men. In a future study we intend to investigate feline responses to animate bearded men. A large number of factors might produce significantly different results in the two studies. In particular, there has been speculation that bearded men produce pheromones which could have a significant effect on cats.[3]
by Catherine Maloney, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, Sarah J. Lichtblau, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois Nadya Karpook, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Carolyn Chou, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Anthony Arena-DeRosa, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cats do not like men with long beards, especially long dark beards.
Cats are indifferent to men with shorter beards.
Cats are confused and/or disturbed by men with beards that are incomplete (e.g., Bork) and to a lesser degree by men whose beards have missing parts (e.g., Crafts).
These interpretations are not categorical. They are subject to several obvious qualifications. The most notable are listed below.
Qualification A. This study excluded photographs of men with beards confined largely to the underside of the jaw (see above discussion of Robert Bork). While data are available from studies conducted by other investigators, those studies made use of a different methodology than the one we used in our study. We are therefore hesitant to interpret our findings in light of the "Bork" findings, or vice versa.
Qualification B. This study was conducted with photographs of bearded men. In a future study we intend to investigate feline responses to animate bearded men. A large number of factors might produce significantly different results in the two studies. In particular, there has been speculation that bearded men produce pheromones which could have a significant effect on cats.[3]
by Catherine Maloney, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, Sarah J. Lichtblau, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois Nadya Karpook, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Carolyn Chou, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Anthony Arena-DeRosa, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Jack M. Beard (has no beard), Lecturer in Law, UCLA Law
B.S.F.S. Georgetown University, 1980
J.D. University of Michigan, 1983
LL.M. Georgetown University, 1989
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Saturday, 20 February 2010
Katepalli Sreenivasan a Professor of Engineering and distinguished university professor, University of Maryland, is one of the few Indian-American scientists who have been educated entirely in India. After obtaining a Ph.D. (with gold medal) in Aeronautics from the Indian Institute of Science in 1975, he did post-doctoral work at the Universities of Sydney and Newcastle in Australia and at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, sixty-one years of age, taught at Yale for twenty-two years from 1979, as the Harold W. Cheel Professor of Mechanical Engineering from 1988, later holding joint appointments in the Departments of Physics, Applied Physics and Mathematics. 
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Londa Schiebinger
The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science
History Department, Building 200
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2024
The author of The Philosopher's Beard: Women and Gender in Science
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Prof. Dr. Ernst W. Mayr
Lehrstuhl für Effiziente Algorithmen, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010
James J Angel, Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University (est.1789)
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Monday, 15 February 2010
Dr. Alessio Bozzo, Research Associate, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh
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Sunday, 14 February 2010
Doctor Dillamond is a character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. The character also appears in the Broadway musical and West End theatre musical Wicked which is based on Maguire's novel. Doctor Dillamond is a goat who has the ability to speak and interact with humans. He is a professor at Shiz University. Because he is the only Animal professor at Shiz, he is subjected to discrimination from his students and colleagues. However, Elphaba (the future Wicked Witch of the West) takes a liking to him.
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Thursday, 11 February 2010
David Fraser, Professor, NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Animal Welfare, C.M., B.A. (Tor.), Ph.D. (Glas.), University of British Columbia
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Sigmund Freud (German pronunciation: [ˈziːkmʊnt fʁɔʏt]), born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939), was a Jewish-Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology.
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Sunday, 7 February 2010
Actor Brian Blessed has two honorary degrees from British Universities. One awarded in 2003 from the University of Bradford, the second awarded in 2004 by the Sheffield Hallam University. This photo is from the University of Bradford where he received Doctor of Letters.
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Friday, 18 December 2009
Dr. David Hyrenbach
Scientific name: Hyrenbachia daveediosus PhD
Where does Dr David live?
Dr. David lives in Greenlake, slightly north of down-town Seattle. In the summertime he migrates down to central California to rendezvous with black-footed albatross. During the school year he forages around the University of Washington.
http://www.polartrec.com/node/892
Photo from D. Hyrenbach
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By Bruce Johnston in Rome Published: 12:01AM GMT 01 Feb 2002
A 66-YEAR-OLD law professor suspected of obtaining sexual favours female students in return for top marks, was hailed as a hero yesterday.
One newspaper described Prof Ezio Capizzano, a commercial law lecturer at the University of Camerino, as "Italy's answer to Sean Connery" after he defended himself by saying he only had sex with those who consented.
He lost his job at the 14th century university yesterday because of the scandal, which erupted when videos of his exploits were sent to the police. One student told La Rebubblica newspaper: "The first thing I learnt when I got to Camerino was that you didn't have to worry about your exams if you were pretty."
The investigation began last month after pornographic videos were stolen from his office. The videos, filmed with a camera hidden under the desk in his faculty office, featured the bearded professor having sex with women students on the rug.
When interrogated, Prof Capizzano calmly admitted the encounters, pointing out that they had all been consensual, and the "fruit of love". Several women told police that instead of feeling "obligated" to have sex, they had done so willingly, such was the professor's appeal.
Prof Capizzano's antics were hailed in the newspaper Corriere della Sera, where an article praised him as "Italy's answer to Sean Connery". Alberto Bevilacqua, a 68-year-old best-selling Italian author of romantic novels, wrote in the newspaper: "Capizzano stands to become the new guru of pensioned Italian males.
"Up until now, the idol of the over-60s, and not only them, has been Sean Connery. But Connery has the added attraction of being a film star. Instead, Capizzano, a sexual trapeze artist, has only himself to thank for his acrobatics."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/1383466/Italian-professor-gets-top-marks-for-his-sex-lessons-with-students.html
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A Spanish university professor with a long beard and dark complexion said Thursday he was briefly forced off an airliner during a layover on the Spanish island of Mallorca by passengers who feared he was an Islamic terrorist. Pablo Gutierrez Vega told The Associated Press that he was humiliated when three German passengers on an Air Berlin flight approached him during a layover in Palma de Mallorca on Aug. 30 en route from Seville, Spain, to Dortmund, Germany, and asked to search his carry-on luggage. The men told him that other passengers were frightened by his appearance, said Gutierrez Vega, a 35-year-old law professor at the University of Seville. "We can't take justice into our own hands," Gutierrez Vega told the Spanish daily el País, "unless we want to return to living in caves."
http://www.cbsnews.com
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