Some Thoughts on Science and the Arts
Why add the A to STEM for STEAM education? It is anecdotal, but I seem to recall artistic hobbies among my scientific colleagues. This article from Scientific American confirms my personal observations. This is not a new idea. Students in an honors college project actually researched the hobbies of prominent scientists (Root-Bernstein and others 2008). …
Agonizing About Writing:
When is enough, ever really enough? Academic writers work more slowly and tend to labor over their work as discussed in this post. Academic writers and grant proposal writers share much. Many academics write grants to further their research and scholarship. At some point both grant proposal and academic writers have to stop tinkering and …