Feb 1, 2008
Friday Notes
Michael Bywater, A. C. Grayling, Jane O'Grady, and Milo Andreas Wagner review Damian Thompson's Counterknowledge: How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History. Hat tip.
Peter Conrad,"The Scrap Merchant Supreme," Guardian, 27 January, reviews Ursula Marx, Gudrun Schwarz, Michael Schwarz and Erdmut Wizisla, eds.; Esther Leslie, trans., Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs. Hat tip.
The decision of Matt Childs, a specialist in Cuban history, to leave Florida State for the University of South Carolina illustrates the folly of Florida's ban on research travel to Cuba. Sherman Dorn and others in Florida's higher education say that"State universities fear brain drain is setting in." Hat tip.