I’ve mentioned my courses already, but in case anyone’s interested, the course websites are up and running.
History 30A: The History of Premodern Science
History 103S/103D: Science and Fiction in Twentieth Century America
If any Berkeley students are reading and are interested in taking either of these classes, welcome! History 30A is currently full, but we expect [...]
Posted in academic | 1 Comment »>This started out as a slow morning–I puttered around a little with making coffee and washing dishes and whatnot before sitting down to check my email. As a result, it took me a little while to find out about the World Fantasy Award nominations, and to figure out why I had email from people [...]
Tags: strange horizons, twenty epics, world fantasy award
Posted in science fiction | 10 Comments »>The Strange Horizons fund drive has only about five days left before it ends. (We’ve extended it once already, we’re not extending it again. It’s over next Wednesday.) We’re currently about $2000 short of our goal. That’s not an impossible amount of money to raise in the time given, but it’s [...]
Tags: fund drive, strange horizons
Posted in science fiction | No Comments »>Somehow, it’s August already, and the start of the semester is rushing towards us. I have two courses at Berkeley this fall: a lecture course on the history of premodern science (the same course from last fall) and an undergraduate seminar. The seminar should be interesting–last fall, I taught a seminar on Darwin [...]
Posted in academic | No Comments »>There’s a particular kind of sinking feeling that comes when your computer dies. Sometimes it’s a slow build, the gradual recognition that a particular noise or behavioral quirk is actually a sign that something’s wrong. In this particular case, there was no such ambiguity. Saturday morning, bright and early, I sat down [...]
Tags: technical difficulties
Posted in personal | 4 Comments »>As promised, my reaction to the most recent Digital Campus episode Some background: Digital Campus is a biweekly podcast from the Center for History and New Media, dealing with issues of technology and the college classroom. If you’re teaching college students, you should be listening to this podcast–it’s the most consistently intelligent and [...]
Tags: academic blogging, digital campus, history, teaching
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