“Academic careers often take people away from the support networks that help to raise a child, care for an aging parent, or weather a medical emergency.” For seven years (very late 2009 or very early 2010 to very late 2016) I cared for my terminal-ill...
Jessica Gavora, in The Atlantic (July 25, 2024, 7:31 AM ET) wrote: I thought of Dad last week, when the Republican vice-presidential nominee, J. D. Vance, said something that profoundly misjudged and disrespected his memory. “America is not...
"Higher education has a culture of unhappiness: Professors in low-demand fields — feeling like we have no options — often practice resignation rather than pursue opportunities that might suit us better. Academe systematically convinces extraordinarily talented people...
Dr Dzavid Haveric of Charles Sturt University is the leading historian in the story of Muslim-Australian experiences. He has also published about an Islamic leader, sometime ago, in Queensland history, who was a philosopher. His work covers those experiences of...
“SOFiA is a network of Australians interested in openly exploring issues of life and meaning through reason, philosophy, ethics, religion, science and the arts. We want to explore for ourselves what we can believe and how we can find meaning in our lives.” ...
Another friend of mine pointed out the many policy overreaches made and that "Learning has been devalued by those in charge for decades. e.g. university as just the acquisition of job tickets. And assignments that reward end products not learning." My friend, who I...
A friend of mine, a person who I consider one of Queensland’s top educators in science, pointed out that, “Most academics are unaware that there are AI designed to write undetected, it's not just chat get.” [joke on ChatGPT; to spell it out for the highly paid fools,...
Dear friends, Yet Another Reason to Employ-Contract Me: the coming wave to Australia of the next stage in the Culture-History Warfare if Trump is elected, in the United States, at the end of year. What the American commentators are saying is, that...
Dear Friends, I have attempted to demonstrate over the past years that our political leaders have not been thinking deeply and accurately. They have been thinking in shallow political terms and in skewed claims (falsehoods). I am not alone in these claims but I am the...