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April 2003
by Claude Lalumičre & Marty Halpern
Review: witpunk / Interview: Claude Lalumičre
"This anthology of sardonic fiction emphasizes SF/fantasy tales sparkling with wit and edgy attitude. The stories, both originals and reprints, cover a wide range of satire. Writers include James Morrow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Allen Steele, Paul Di Filippo, Robert Silverberg, and Pat Cadigan. Halpern, a 2001 World Fantasy Award Finalist, is the editor of the legendary Golden Gryphon Press. You'll cry until you laugh. - Ed"
I've heard that humor was an evolutionary mechanism for defusing anxiety. That when we laugh, it's a sort of "all clear" signal so the clan can go back to hunter-gathering. "Thought it was a sabre toothed tiger, but it was just a big rock. Ain't that funny? Yep."
What varies from person to person, I'd guess, is how far from home the mark hits. How ready we are to put ourselves in someone else's shoes...how insensitive we are. The Android Lt. Commander Data's efforts to learn and appreciate humor are sophisticated examples of "deadpan". This makes them doubly funny, because the idea of a mechanical man who is funny without knowing it is full of another kind of humor: irony.
Irony is a very sophisticated kind of humor, sophisticated in the sense that it's about the failure of reason, so first you have to appreciate reason. Sardonic humor...which is the unifying theme of this book, can be best understood by the company it keeps: contemptuous, disdainful, scornful; derisive, jeering, mocking, saturnine, sneering; caustic, corrosive, sarcastic, satiric (see Definitions sidebar).
Not the sort of folks you might want your daughter to hang out with...unless you were hoping she'd grow up to be a mean spirited critic. But the fact remains that we need mean spirited critics. Yes, it means that we will suffer the embarrassment of having our faults trotted out for the amusement of all...but nothing motivates us to correct those faults like the fear of humiliation. Vanity, thy name is human, and the mirror on the wall is humor.
witpunk then, is a very funny, very disturbing collection of 26 stories that I urge you to let under your skin. You many never look at Teddy Bears, Cartoon Characters, punctuation marks, Catholics, Aliens, Teen Age girls, turkey, cockroaches...or the hallowed art of writing Science Fiction itself, the same way again. But that's not important now.1 What's important is that you come away from witpunk unable to look at yourself the same way, and fear not, you will. Not afraid? You will be. You will be.2
I loved Allen Steele's "Teb Hunter", though it makes some of the inanimate object around the house nervous. Jeffrey Ford spices up the collection with five ultra short pieces of his killer period-free-pastichery. Cory Doctorow and Michael Skeet take us on a memorable visit to France, in "I Love Paree". James Morrow takes the Catholic ban on contraception to its logical conclusion in the "Auspicious Eggs". And more. Much more. Much of it funny, most of it painful, and all of it recommended.
There's only one caution I'd urge you. No matter how hard it is to put down. Try not to read it all at one sitting. Chronic Comic Fatigue is nothing to laugh at.
I sent off a list of loaded questions to witpunk co-editor Claude Lalumičre and, upon receiving his answers came to the conclusion that while he may be a bang up anthologizer...in fact, that he must be, considering the quality of witpunk's entries...that despite that, the man has no sense of humor.
That's perfect for someone making a statement about the sardonic, don't you think?
SFRevu: Why isn't SF funny? Or is it, and we just don't realize it?
Claude Lalumičre: Well--- a lot of it isn't funny. Especially a lot of the stuff that thinks it's funny. And then there's the stuff that's funny for all the wrong reasons. But, still, there is some genuinely funny stuff out there. But not all fiction should be funny. Diversity is key.
SFRevu: What made you decide to do witpunk? And while we're at it...what is wit, anyway, punk? Er, I mean: what is witpunk, anyway.
Claude: witpunk is a state of mind. It's also a book: an anthology of sardonic fiction.
The idea behind witpunk was to gather fiction that was fun to read, while having a strong sardonic attitude. And why do witpunk?-- because people are always complaining about how much fun things used to be, while ignoring all the fun stuff happening right now. witpunk combines the fun and the anger.
SFRevu: Are the three horsemen of postmodern humor (Irony, Satire, and Sardonicism) dead, dying or just not allowed in politically correct company? And why?
Claude:I don't think these things are dead at all. That's what the anthology demonstrates. All the authors in the book are active writers, and many of them are well-known for their sardonic fiction: Don Webb, Paul Di Filippo, William Sanders, Ernest Hogan, Ray Vukcevich, Pat Cadigan, Eugene Byrne, James Morrow, etc., etc. These folks are far from dead, and their sense of humour is deadly and pertinent.
SFRevu: Are they bad for us?
Claude:They're good for us. They're bad for the status quo.
SFRevu: Say something nice about your Co-Editor, Marty Halpern. Or not, if you think that would be more interesting. How did you two work together?
Claude: Marty is one of the nicest guys in the world. A real pro. A hard worker. And a stickler for details, as all good editors should be. As to how we worked... We both read the stories independently, then we compared notes. Most of the time, we fully agreed. But there was a little negotiation, a little give and take... That's inevitable.
SFRevu: How did you get such a great lineup of talent? I nearly fell down after reading Allen Steele's The Teb Hunter, longed to visit the city of light in Cory Doctorow's I Love Paree, and never knew Robert Silverberg was really a cranky teenage girl under that debonair guise.
Claude: We made up a list of writers whose work we felt was representative of the range of styles and approaches we wanted to book to showcase. And then we asked them. Most of them said yes. A few others heard about it through the grapevine and asked to be on board. And I had access to a few stories from an aborted anthology project for a publisher who shall remain nameless. And, yeah, I remember the first time I read Bob Silverberg's "Amanda and the Alien" -- who knew that he could be so funny? That story just had to be in the book.
Who are the firstimers in witpunk?
Who should we keep an eye out for? (That reminds me of a story about a
bionic prostitute in
Claude: There are two first-time writers in the book: Elise Moser and Michael Arsenault. Both Montrealers. I'm also a Montrealer, so there might be a connection there. In fact, there are three stories by Montrealers in witpunk. I sent Marty four stories by Montreal writers, and I waited for his comments before chiming in. It turned out we agreed which were the top three, and we decided to use those three. As to who to keep an eye out for... you should keep an eye out for all the witpunk authors. They're all such witpunky writers.
SFRevu: But enough about witpunk. What about you? What's next (and last) for Claude Lalumičre?
Claude: My next two anthologies will be Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction (Red Deer Press) and Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic (Véhicule Press) -- both all-new and both launching at the 2003 WorldCon in Toronto. That's what I'm working on most intensely right now.
Aside from that, Interzone published three of my stories in the last year. My story from The Book of More Flesh, "The Ethical Treatment of Meat", is a final nominee for this year's Origins Awards. My story "Njŕbň" is coming up in On Spec.
But I'm most known for my criticism. I've got a monthly column at Locus Online; for The Montreal Gazette, I write a column called Fantastic Fiction , which, beginning this month, is being archived online at www.infinityplus.co.uk; I'm the comics columnist at Black Gate; and reviews of mine will start appearing in Flesh & Blood as of #13, later this year; etc.
I have a few other anthology projects in the works, but nothing I can talk about yet.
SFRevu: When was your first time? I mean reading SF, and was it a life changing experience?
Claude: I honestly don't remember. But the first
writers to give me a real thrill were Philip José Farmer and Roger
Zelazny. They both touched something in me in a way that inspired me to
want to be a writer also -- and made me want to discover more writers
who could give me the kind of ineffable experience that some of their
work provoked in me. And then I found Silverberg, Lafferty, Tiptree,
Sturgeon, Ballard, Shepard, and the 1980s Interzone crowd -- and so many
more -- all big influences that shaped my worldview and my esthetics of
Claude:I used to finish everything I started. But now, I'm more impatient.Above all, I like fiction that surprises me. I don't want to read the same thing all the time. Current authors I like a lot include Lucius Shepard, Paul Di Filippo, Ray Vukcevich, Shelley Jackson, Chuck Palahniuk, Christopher Moore, Kim Newman, Neal Stephenson... and many more. J.G. Ballard, always and forever.
Right now, I'm reading Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, and that's such an amazing novel, so compellingly written.
SFRevu: Is this the future? Is there a future yet to come? Should we be afraid? Very Afraid?
Claude: We should laugh at those who want to make us afraid, at those who want to steal the future -- laugh at them until they cringe and cower in shame.
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A Chorus Line
It's impossible to overstate the impact of A Chorus Line when it opened at the Public Theater on May 21, 1975: the entire run sold out and on July 25 it moved to Broadway, where it ran for 6,137 performances (a record in the pre-Andrew Lloyd Webber years) and won nine Tony Awards and the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Many of this show's innovations have since become commonplace, so it's worth stepping back and considering how revolutionary it was for its time.
A Chorus Line may have been the first "workshop musical." The kernel of the show was a series of workshops with dancers who were taped while speaking about their childhoods and how they became involved in dancing. The stories on these tapes became the basis of characters in the show: some are composites, while others are clearly the stories of identifiable individuals.
And the things they talk about! This is no moon, June, spoon musical: the subject matter is life as it is lived. I'm not going to argue about which was the first musical to discuss racism, unhappy childhoods or sexual identity in a musical, I'll just say that A Chorus Line includes some of the rawest, most moving material on these topics that I have ever heard.
There are no stars in A Chorus Line; instead, the show focuses on the lives of gypsies, dancers who go from one show to another, wearing out their bodies and working for minimum contracts while knowing that they'll never become a headliner. The ensemble is the real star of the show, and it's made up of hardworking people who realize just how tenuous their place in show business really is, and how quickly it could all come to an end. There are certainly distinct characters in the show, but one minute they're delivering a solo dance or monologue and the next minute they're back in their place in the chorus line, where the highest virtue is to blend in rather than stand out.
There is almost no set as well, just a bare stage with a rotating back wall which can be mirrors or a plain black background. There's also a set of mirrors arranged in a U-curve which descend from the ceiling for Cassie's dance solo "The Music and the Mirror," but otherwise A Chorus Line relies on blocking and some wonderfully creative lighting to shift attention around the stage, from a solo dancer to a small group to the full ensemble.
I saw the original production in New York in 1978, and it completely blew me away. And, while I was just a hick from the sticks at the time, it's worth noting that hardened New York critics fell all over themselves in their reviews of A Chorus Line, trying to find words to express what made this show so unique and so powerful. Clive Barnes of the New York Times said that the audience response to the Off-Broadway production was so shattering it was a wonder the theatre was left standing. Frank Rich (also of the New York Times) called the show "a celebration of Broadway mythology and a full exploitation of the stage's ingenious magic" and described the record-breaking 3,389th performance as "a theatrical experience that was even more poignant than it was thrilling."
But enough nostalgia: this is 2009 and the production at the Fox is the national touring company. How well does A Chorus Line hold up today, and how well does the cast fulfill the requirements of this demanding show?
To the first question, I'd say it's a mixed bag. The music by Marvin Hamlisch is sometimes undistinguished and often dated. The show is long by today's standards (well over 2 hours, without intermission) and the book frequently feels both rushed and padded. Some of the cast's "true confessions" would shock no one these days (wet dreams and adulterous fathers, anyone?).
But there are also moments of genius, and if I've learned one thing over the years it's that in most musicals you have to be willing to tolerate a certain amount of chaff to get to the wheat: Wicked and Spring Awakening come immediately to mind. A couple of really great songs, or even great moments, can be enough to make a show worth seeing. When A Chorus Line is good, it's really really good, and that makes it worth sitting through the script's dated references and gratuitous jokey moments.
The touring company cast is also a mixed bag. Starting at the top, Bryan Knowlton is brilliant as Paul, who delivers the evening's most moving monologue as he relates his experience of growing up Puerto Rican and gay. Even though the broad outlines of such a life story are no longer novel on stage or off, this particular story as delivered by Knowlton remains shattering. Rebecca Riker as Diana shows off her powerful voice and spirit in "Nothing" and "What I Did For Love." Stephanie Martignetti is hilarious as Val, who relates the real secret to getting show business work in "Dance: Ten; Looks Three" more colloquially known as "Tits and Ass."
Less satisfactory is Robyn Hurder as Cassie: yes, she can dance, but she's unable to sell the life story she keeps telling us (that she was once an item with Zach, played by Kevin Neil McCready, who's conducting the auditions) and she can't carry a tune in a bucket. Not very convincing, since her particular conflict to work through is that she was once a featured performer and Zach feels she's too good to return to the chorus.
But the balance is definitely on the plus side. The dancing is great and the choreography and staging are positively brilliant; my memory is not good enough to make a detailed comparison with the original production, but this feels very true to that spirit. And there's something incredibly moving about A Chorus Line as well: maybe it's the fact that we may not all be dancers, but we've all known what it's like to not fit in, to be embarrassed by our bodies, to realize that time is running out and maybe we won't achieve all of our goals. These are the common experiences of life, and seeing them portrayed on stage produces both the shock of recognition, and catharsis.
The national touring company of A Chorus Line will run at the Fox Theatre through May 24, 2009. Tickets may be purchased in person at the Fox Box Office or by phone or internet from MetroTix, 314-534-1111 or metrotix.com.


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Tag Archives: science
Tuesday Links (07/02/13)
Why MBA-Bound Johnny Still Can't Write: Sure, I'm a writer, so I have a bit of a bias here. But I majored in physics. I learnt this stuff in high school, and I wasn't about to hand in sloppy work during the odd humanities elective of my post-secondary coursework. But graduate program business majors, portrayed here as the quintessential D-students, study everything from business communication to marketing, then complain about being put upon for basic writing skills like grammar, punctuation, and spelling. It's called branding, friends. Employers want someone smart and hard-working, and this isn't how you project that image. Way to devalue the degree.
21 Jokes Only Nerds Will Understand: I'm afraid there are two I just don't get.
What You Wish For: Windows 8 is the worst.
Tuesday Links (06/04/13)
This 27-year-old repaid $28,115 in debt – in under two years: A lesson in austerity and belt-tightening.
Paul Krugman's right: Austerity kills: Aaannnd here's the bad news. Is it a surprise they call economics "the dismal science"? You just can't win.
Bosses more likely to be psychopaths, study says: I know, right? Actually this is nothing new, studies about the higher incidence of psychopathy in certain fields have been around for years, and it's not surprising that someone with minimal empathy and maximal manipulative abilities would rise to the top in certain workplace cultures (if not most). But the top ten lists for careers that attract the highest and lowest numbers of psychopaths are new to me. It seems I make both lists. So which of my two major careers represents the "real" me?
Care2 Blog Weekly Roundup (03/16/13)
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A number of posts so far this month, with perhaps a handful more upcoming.
It's Darwin Day: Discover a New (to You) Species
Too Hard to Regulate Dog Breeders? Just Forget It, Then!
Tuesday Links (11/20/12)
Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves: "I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village … Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and [thie children] figured out the camera, and had hacked Android."
Tardigrades (or "Water Bears"); First Animals to Survive in Space: This is so cool, I'm just going to embed the video below. Some surprising evidence in favour of panspermia? Who'da thunk it?
Tuesday Links (10/30/12)
Email Is The New Pony Express–And It's Time To Put It Down: "Email . . . may just be the biggest time killer in the modern workplace. Here's where companies are headed next."
The Saga of Epsilon and Zeta:The story of the seemingly never-ending 2005 hurricane season.
How to Eat a Triceratops: "Step two: tear the head off to expose the tasty neck muscles."
Tuesday Links (10/23/12)
Hobbit coins worth thousands to become legal tender in New Zealand: From the fictional land that brought you all manner of magic rings, only some of which are evil, this lovely new set of commemorative coins.
It is the Future, Here is Your Jetpack: The lack of jetpacks in the twenty-first century is officially something we can no longer complain about. People will probably still whine about the lack of flying cars, however.
My dog: the paradox (an Oatmeal comic): "My dog does not fear automobiles, garbage trucks, or airplanes . . . but he is terrified of hair dryers."
Ada Lovelace, Throughout the Ages: Did you miss Ada Lovelace day?
How to Protect Yourself Against Supernatural Creatures (Dinosaur Comics): "Rather than punishing bad behaviour, reinforce your lycanthropes desirable behaviour at the moment it happens with a click and a treat."
Pissing People Off With My Writing
It happens, sometimes. Not intentionally. I try to be fair, perform some honest research, leave polemicism out of it. But sometimes there are people out there with an interest in my writing something very different than what I have, in fact, chosen to write.
Some time ago I wrote on Care2 about a fossil fuel shill who managed to get an instructor gig in one of those massive, science-for-humanities-majors intro courses, in Canada's own Carleton University. I was alerted to the story by one of the science policy/education watchdog groups I keep in touch with (and have done since before I wrote about this sort of stuff — science teachers need to know about attacks on reality as much as science/environment writers do).
The story was easily verified by checking out the actual course information on Carleton's own website, and the sort of falsehoods being propagated by this climate denier in the classroom are neither subtle nor relative. Just the other day, Tom Harris left a comment both on that months-old article, and here on the site (on my About page). He wants me to take down the article. I won't be doing that.
There's no need to respond to his message point-by-point because he complains my article is inaccurate, when it simply isn't. You either understand and buy into the scientific method, or you think you can just make anything up you want. I'm not going to attempt a rational conversation with someone who falls into the latter group.
Also recently, I received a message about a restaurant I reviewed here on the site, my local Zesto's. I had a bad experience there, but didn't pile on (I think) too much. It's not the first response I've received to that review: not long after the posting went up, somebody commented on Urban Spoon (to which I linked in the review) that I was full of it. It was a bit suspicious (the user made an account apparently just to comment on my review and has never made another posting since I last checked), and in any case, there was little to it other than name-calling.
But the message I received this week was from the actual restaurant owner apologizing for the issues I experienced,and inviting us back for another meal. I give her credit for that. I appreciate the difficulty in finding good people in the service industry, and I'm happy to know that that particular employee's behaviour is at least not official Zesto's policy.
I won't be taking up that meal offer, but I acknowledge it here. She's trying to make up for a bad first impression, which is difficult to do. At the very least, a polite, honest communication is more likely to get a response from me than ad hominems.
LJ Reviews Roundup
My first three Library Journal reviews have run, and are partially or completely available online. Parts of my review of X and the City can be found here.
My full review of Benoit Mandelbrot's memoir, The Fractalist, is quoted on the Barnes and Noble page for the book here.
My review of the coffee table book, Spectrums, gets the lead in a recent Xpress Reviews post at the Library Journal online.


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Matthias Goerne and Christoph Eschenbach teamed up for "Winterreise" at the Terrace Theater on Monday night: no frills, no choreography, no costumes, just honest singing and, surprisingly, slightly clunky playing. Click for my full review.
Above: The other extreme of "Winterreise:" a fully-staged production of the cycle at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, with Ian Bostridge. And no, I am not saying one way is necessarily better than the other.


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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Philadelphia 76ers extended a team record with their 26th consecutive loss, one off the NBA mark set by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2010-11. The Sixers gave up 19 straight points in the second quarter of a 113-91 pounding by the Spurs in San Antonio last night. Austin Daye had 22 points and Tim Duncan added 19 in the Spurs' 14th straight win.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Lakers center Pau Gasol (pow gah-SAHL') has been diagnosed with vertigo and isn't expected to play against the visiting New York Knicks tonight. The 7-foot Spaniard missed the second half of Sunday's victory over Orlando after complaining of dizziness and nausea. He spent the night in a hospital, but the Lakers said an MRI of his head was normal.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tiger Woods says it's "a little too soon" to know whether his ailing back will be well enough for him to enter the Masters. Speaking at a news conference in Washington, D.C. yesterday, Woods said he's been trying to get ready for the first major of the year. He is off to the worst start of his 18 years on tour, and last week he withdrew from the Arnold Palmer Invitational because of persistent back pain.
UNDATED (AP) — Texas Rangers catcher Geovany Soto (SOH'-toh) has a tear in his left knee that will sideline him for 10 to 12 weeks. Cleveland Indians outfielder Michael Bourn will start the season on the disabled list, opening a spot for outfielder Nyjer (NY'-jur) Morgan on the opening-day roster. And Tampa Bay minor league pitcher Alex Colome (kah-loh-MAY') has been suspended for the first 50 games of the season for a positive steroids test.
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — No. 2 Duke has become the first top-four seed to lose in the NCAA women's basketball tournament. Megan Rogowski scored 22 points and Megan Podkowa added 18 to help DePaul upset the Blue Devils 74-65 in Durham last night. The second-round exit comes after Duke reached the regional finals the last four years.


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MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) seem to be following the historical trend of our infatuation with how technology can solve many of our problems in teaching and learning. Since 2008, MOOCs have emerged not only as individual and free online courses (such as those offered at universities such as MIT, Stanford and Harvard, but have been packaged together as degree programs at Udacity, and at for-profit universities such as Ashford University, Capella University, Kaplan University and the University of Phoenix.
There are a number of research issues including effectiveness, cost, and the nature of corporate/education partnerships.
These online courses and degree program didn't drop out of the sky. There is a long history here.
A Bit of History
Although the example in this article explores online courses and degrees at the college level, the content is relevant to K-12 burgeoning use of online courses, especially for middle and high schools.
In 1980, I purchased my first computer and modem, and later that day connected to a very primitive Internet (CompuServe, and BRS After Dark). E-mail followed by using Bitnet, a university computer network founded in 1981. By the late 1980s, I began using SOOHCs (Small Open Online Hybrid Courses) at Georgia State University utilizing e-mail and electronic bulletin boards for students to post and respond to comments and ideas of other students in the same course. Many colleges and universities ventured into the application of these new technologies for teaching and learning. Although the first virtual courses (online courses for middle and high schools) were developed at this time by the Concord Consortium, it was the creation of hybrid courses that blossomed during this early period in the 1990s. These courses developed at the middle and high school levels, as well as at universities.
Teachers use several methods in creating a hybrid course. Some include building WebPages and placing the course syllabus and its various elements on the web, or making use of a course management systems. Course management systems have built-in tools that create an interactive online component such Blackboard, Nicenet or WebCT.
By building a Website or using a course management system, teachers used the resources of the web as an assistant in their approach to teaching. This enabled them to carry out web-based teaching strategies in a seamless way. The course website becomes a learning hub that organizes the work for teachers and students. The course website included links to the course syllabus, an online bulletin board, and links to an assignment page, activities, and collaborative projects.
For teachers, however, the hybrid approach (SOOHCs) is a very practical alternative in which the teacher combines online and face-to-face activities. Thousands of teachers are using this approach by creating their own interactive website which has aspects of the course syllabus, activities, projects and evaluation. Interactive websites can be easily created using free software to create your website. Blog software, such as WordPress, or Blogger, or wiki software such as Wikispaces are easy to use, and have features that enable you to create not only interactive, but powerful websites for your courses. You can also use Google Docs or Soho Docs to manage your own files, and also make these available to your students and colleagues.
But probably more significant here is the fact that your students can be great agents and co-collaborators in the development of websites, digital video of class projects, creators of Wikispaces, participants in Google Docs, generate Google Readers and Delicious links, perhaps for the benefit of younger students that they might indeed teach. Follow this link for details about these Web 2.0 tools.
Network Science
One of the areas of Internet research and development that emerged during period this was "network science," or, pooled data analysis. Network science brought meaning to the concept of "community of learners," and because of the Internet, these communities were global in scope. It was this construct that created such high interest among teachers and students. The idea of communicating with students thousands of miles away motivated students and created intense interest with the school.
Network science projects involves students in real problems, including the study of soil erosion, chemical and biological pollution of streams, acid rain, and ground-level ozone. Often, these problems have societal implications, and students take action based on their research. Network science follows a cycle of learning and classroom activities that make it a compelling approach to science teaching. Table 1 outlines the cycle of learning that was worked out to design network projects (Hassard, J. 2009, Science as Inquiry, Goodyear).
Table 1. Network Science/Pooled Data Analysis
|Data Collection at Local Site
|Teachers introduce the network project; schedule of local observations is established
|Data Sharing
|Observational data is submitted via web forms.
|Data Analysis
|Teachers work with students to analyze local data, aswell as data available on the network science website. In most cases, the data on the project's website can be downloaded and into Excel or similar programs to create graphs and charts to help students with their analyses.
|Taking Action
|The last step is for students to take action on their analyses. At one level, students can publish/share their findings and conclusions by posting them on a website that they design. At another level, students can take action locally by sharing their findings and conclusions with the community with a conference, a presentation, or a fair.
Web-Based Projects
From the mid-1980s, nearly a dozen web-based projects were developed and field-tested within traditional courses, grades 5 – 12 in many countries. For examples, through the Global Thinking Project (GTP), teachers from the U.S. and Russia designed a series of projects that were carried out using the pedagogy of network science. Some examples can be found here. At TERC and the Concord Consortium, which established the field of network science, many projects were developed, but more importantly, as with the Global Thinking Project, the projects were investigated through a variety of research programs.
MOOCs are the rage, especially when you consider that these courses can reach thousands, if not millions of students. For example, to give you an idea of the range of MOOCs that are available, here is a link to a list of Top Ten Sites for Free with Elite Universities, courses offered at Blackboard and Udacity.
For years, universities have outsourced many of their technology courses and programs. But in recent years, universities, realizing the potential and reach of the Internet, began offering many of their courses online–free.
According to the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education (CFHE), an advocacy group that raises questions about affordable higher education, and what voices should be included in changes being made to the design and structure of courses and programs at the university level. As is the case in K-12 education, a corporate type of reform is taking place in higher education resulting in reduced funding, high costs for students, and a call for accountability and efficiency, which some claim reduces the quality of student learning experiences. And, as many of you will agree, many of "technology reforms" are going forward with little or no research about the quality and effectiveness of online learning.
In a paper by the CFHE, entitled The Promises of Online Higher Education, the authors ferret out conclusions indicating that online courses will not cut costs for higher education, and in fact will probably be more expensive in the long run. Although MOOCs are typically free, investors, according to the CFHE paper realize that a healthy profit could be realized if only a few of the thousands that take these course pay for them. The authors of the report question the motivation for these "massive" courses. They write:
According to venture capitalist John Doerr (one of the main backers of the MOOC provider, Coursera) if a sufficient number of people out of "millions of learners" pay for premium services MOOC providers could easily make a healthy profit.[10] As this observation suggests, the corporate provider and investor enthusiasm for the "massiveness" of MOOCs may not be so much about spreading knowledge as it is about getting a big enough set of potential consumers to generate profits. Campaign for the Future of Education. (October 16, 2013). CFHE Working Papers. In The "Promises" of Online Higher Education: Reducing Costs. Retrieved October 18, 2013, from http://futureofhighered.org/workingpapers/.
There is another line of questioning that resonates with K-12 education reform, and that is to whom are these reforms (such as MOOCs and Charter Schools) directed. According to the CFHE report, MOOCs are focused primarily on middle and lower-income students, and non-elite institutions. And there is some evidence that a traditional higher education (face-to-face courses) is the "real deal," and employers favor this. Who has the advantage here? The advantage is for those who attend traditional universities, and the "more privileged students who attend them."
The money-saving argument according to some in higher education is "one of the worst reasons" to embrace online learning. Designing, organizing, managing, and revising online courses and programs is an expensive venture. If the courses are to be valuable learning experiences for students, then innovative online pedagogy must be developed and used in these courses.
As I mentioned earlier, the outsourcing of programs, courses, and other services has taken place for a long time. But recently, partnerships have developed between universities and corporate entities such as Udacity and Coursera. In the CFHE report, a partnership between the Georgia Institute of Technology, AT&T and Udacity resulted in a contract to offer a Master's degree program in Computer Science. This program will be piloted during the Spring Semester, 2014, applicants have until October 27 to apply. At this time 8 courses are in production. The cost of the degree is $6,600. For more details on this new program, follow this link.
The partnership among GaTech, AT&T and Udacity hope to service 10,000 or more students, with 8 professors (new hires), and assistants that will work for Udacity to provide feedback to students. How many assistants will it take to service 10,000 students? Will the quality of this Masters Degree rival the face-to-face degree on the Georgia Tech campus?
At the K-12 level, especially for high schools where more online course development and curriculum development takes place, concern should be raised about the push for more online learning, especially when we hear politicians like Jeb Bush, who claim that parents should have the choice for their students, and that online education will be cheaper for school districts. If you go to the Bush website, Foundation for Excellence, you will find that his organization uses the same language that appears in all of the Race to the Top (RT3) work plans that I've read, e.g. career readiness, digital learning, effective teachers and leaders, outcome based funding, school choice, and standards and accountability.
Online learning is relatively new to middle and high schools, and colleges and universities. MOOCs are the latest form of online courses, and need to be studied to find out who takes these courses, how many students complete MOOCs, and how effective are MOOCs as teaching and learning platforms. An article on Inside Higher Ed reviewed research the high MOOC dropout rate. According to some reports, the dropout rate is as high as 90%, but that might be due to that anyone can register for free, look around, and for one reason or another not even pursue the course, let along complete it.
For example, I've registered for a MOOC at Udacity, Introduction to Computer Science. There are 11 lessons in the course. I am still on lesson 1. Will I complete the course? Maybe. But the point is, I could be easily identified as a dropout. Or perhaps, as reported in the Inside Higher Ed article, I could be either a lurker, drop-in, passive participant, or an active participant.
That said, online behavior is very different from in-class behavior, including attendance and course completion. When we started working with online courses and projects, rates of participation varied. For hybrid courses, the participation in online discussions was higher than in The Global Thinking Project. Expecting schools from around the world to keep up with emails, electronic bulletin boards discussions, data uploading and analysis was more difficult. Much of this had to do with access to technology that was seamless, and this didn't happen until schools upgraded telecommunications, and provided enough computers for more student and teacher involvement.
Since the early 90s, when we began this work, the Internet has been transformed, but the Internet has also transformed the behavior of humans. MOOCs are here, and many of them are high quality courses. In addition to studying the quality of online courses, we need to find out what creates good experiences for students.


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My name is Matt Eisenstat and I'm a 4th year medical student currently applying for residency in Emergency Medicine. I have an interest in podcasting and medical education. This podcast was created in order to provide M1 and M2 students with review material that will help them on USMLE Step 1 and on basic medical science exams.
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Thank you all for participating in this study. Please remember to fill out the pre-experiment survey and pre-test prior to listening to these podcasts. Use the podcasts in anyway that helps you! As you listen remember to keep track of how long you listen to the podcast total and what you're doing when you listen to them. At the end of the module I will send out a final post-experiment survey and test. All correspondence will go through the email you provided to me.
MBB – Episode 2 – Antipsychotics
This is episode 2 of 8 in the MBB series. This episode contains all antipsychotics focusing on side effects and distinguishing characteristics that will help differentiate drugs on an exam. NOTE*** At one point I say typical and atypical antipsych medications are in the first generation. That is not correct typical antipsychotics are also known as 1st generation. Atypical antipsychotics are the 2nd and 3rd generation.
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This is the final episode in the MBB series. This podcast will cover the pharmacology of drugs of abuse, some withdrawal symptoms, and antidotes used in overdose. I believe I have a couple goof-ups in this episode that I was not able to edit out in time. Not content errors just inability to talk in English. Just remember "the windows are the eyes to the soul…"
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This is episode 7 of 8 in the MBB series. This episode will cover all the antidepressant/anxiety medications as well as bipolar mood stabilizers.
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This is episode 6 of 8 in the MBB series. This is a miscellaneous neurology therapy lecture covering multiple therapies for these four neurological disorders.
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This is episode 5 of the 8 episode MBB series. I will cover the various medications and treatment strategies for use in Parkinson's disease.
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This is episode 4 of 8 in the MBB series of podcasts. This episode will go over the various treatments for ADHD and briefly go over treatments for other early developmental disorders. In addition this episode contains the treatments for headaches focusing on migraine headache treatment and prophylaxis.
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This is the 3rd episode in the 8 episode MBB series. This podcast will cover medications for epilepsy and seizures in general. It will also BRIEFLY go over the basic classification of seizure types.
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This episode is the first of eight episodes dedicated to the Mind Brain Behavior module for second year students at my institution. This episode covers the pharmacology of sedative/hypnotic medications including benzos, barbiturates, sleeping medications, and a few atypical agents.
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What does uremic mean?
Definitions for uremic
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of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency)
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The countdown to the 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia is about to reach just 6 months more to go, so adidas Soccer has given us a glimpse at what some of the teams competing in that spectacle will be sporting next summer. The Home kits of Germany, Spain, Russia, Japan, Colombia, Argentina and Mexico all revealed, and each one has taken inspiration from iconic shirts from their respective pasts.
The new jersey for FIFA World Cup defending champions Germany is a take on the team's iconic 1990 shirt. Hosts Russia will be playing in an updated version of their 1988 Olympic Games kit, where the team won Gold. Messi and the rest of Argentina will be competing in an albiceleste shirt that celebrates the federation's 125-year anniversary, which features an embossed sign-off combined of laurels (incorporated into the stripes) and the number 125.
2010 winners Spain pay homage to their 1994 shirt with a line graphic design consisting of diamonds in red, yellow and blue. Perhaps the best of the bunch, Colombia reminds us of their standout jersey for 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy that boasts a blue and red graphic design on the side of the kit highlighting the Colombian flag colors. Also worth noting is that GK jersey was inspired by René Higuita's shirt from that '90 tournament.
Japan incorporates traditional craftsmanship of Sashiko stitching technique for their classic blue shirt that also features hues of red and white as a nod to the national flag. Mexico's (¡viva!) la verde has a gradient graphic running from the hem towards the chest. Belgium refreshed its 1984 kit with argyle in black yellow and red (the colors of the Belgian flag) with the federation badge in the center.
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Roommate arrested in murder of Houston man found wrapped in blanket
Updated 1:15 pm, Thursday, November 21, 2013
A suspect has been arrested in the beating and strangulation death of his 60-year-old roommate Tuesday night at their apartment in southeast Houston.
John A. Kamenicky, 38, is charged with murder in the slaying of Mark Ellis, which happened at about 6:30 p.m. at 7800 Detroit, according to the Houston Police Department.
Police said Ellis' brother told investigators he had not heard from his sibling for several days and became suspicious when he went to the apartment and saw the front door open. When he went inside, he found his brother's body wrapped in a blanket that was tied with an extension cord.
Police said an autopsy revealed Ellis had been beaten and strangled. There were no signs of a struggle inside the apartment.
Later, investigators determined Kamenicky was the suspect in the case. He was arrested Wednesday without incident.
Investigators did not reveal what led them to Kamenicky. They also did not release a possible motive in the case.


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UC4: Service Members & Veterans on Campus at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Center for Deployment Psychology with the American Council on Education and the Bob Woodruff Foundation
Thursday, September 5, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
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About the Program
The Center for Deployment Psychology University Counseling Center Core Competency (UC4) program: Service Members and Veterans on Campus is designed to provide an informative and engaging training to all clinical staff working in a university or college community.
Curriculum includes interactive, didactic, and workshop components that address multicultural understanding of service members and veterans, campus-specific challenges, deployment cycle stressors, outreach discussion and workshop, and an introduction to evidence-based treatments of PTSD - Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT).
Lisa M. French, Psy.D. (bio)
Clinical Psychologist, Chief of Military Education Programs
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Clinical Psychologist, Chief of Civilian Education Programs
Center for Deployment Psychology
Participant Eligibility
This is a generalist program for campus counseling centers seeking to understand the concerns, challenges, and experience of veterans attending college, and is an in-person, full-day training for all clinical staff working in a university, college, or community college setting.
Non-clinical campus administrators and staff who interact daily with the student body are also welcome to attend as space allows.
Continuing Education Credits (CEs)
Most professional-level clinicians are eligible to receive CEUs upon completion of this training. Full check-in and check-out is required. Check-in will begin at 8:00am, CEUs for partial participation will not be awareded. CMEs for medical providers or psychiatrists are not available. CEUs will be provided through CMI. For CE credit information only, please contact Amy Forsberg at: email@example.com. For information specific to CE eligibility please refer to the CMI Ad Statement.
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Directions to Venue: http://www.kovalchickcomplex.com/parking-directions/
Support for this workshop is made possible in part by a grant through the American Council on Education (ACE) from the Bob Woodruff Foundation (BWF), which provides resources and support to injured service members, veterans and their families so they have successful futures.
The Center for Deployment Psychology is a tri-service psychology training consortium headquartered at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USU) in Bethesda, Maryland. As the Nation's only federal health sciences university, USU is committed to excellence in military medicine and public health during peace and war.
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Reports are coming in that Nvidia is attempting to counter the Radeon HD 7700 series launch with a retail launch of its own, the GeForce GTX 560 SE.
While Nvidia is yet to confirm or refute the claims, the launch seems to be imminent, judging by the detail that has gone into the 'rumour'.
'SE', as you might already know, is a bit of a misnomer. It stands for Special Edition and usually involves surprising consumers with a castrated version of the full chip it gets its name from, in this case the GF114 chip of the GTX 560. This being the case the GTX 560 SE will carry 288 CUDA cores, 48 TMUs, 24 ROPs and a slimmer 192-bit memory bus to address 1GB of GDDR5 (@3828MHz), translating into 92GB/s of memory throughput.
If you look at the specs, you'll actually notice it is quite similar to the GTX 555, however, for all intents and purposes, a GTX 555 is something you won't spot on a retail shelf. The GTX 560 SE, on the other hand, you will.
While most reports are placing the GTX 560 SE at "sub-$200 prices", this would make little sense because it would directly conflict with plain vanilla versions of the GTX 560, as well as being a bit overpriced compared to its 28nm HD 7770 rival. In order to pull this one off, Nvidia will have to retail these at $150 or so. It would be a feeble counterpunch, otherwise.
Hopefully this will be the last of the Geforce GTX 560 legacy which has clearly befuddled more than a few consumers with its branding antics. As a counter to the Radeon HD 7770 launch it is more flash than anything, as performance will be lacking compared to AMD's.
The launch is rumoured to take place in the coming weeks.