Monthly Archives: February 2006

Travel Gem #1: Surge

Posted on February 14, 2006 by Ian

Seen on store shelves in South Africa: Are you brave (or desperate) enough to use a laxative named “Surge”?

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Why “Think Twice”?

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Ian

By profession, I’m a research professor in the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts. My background is physics, but my expertise and field of specialty is physics education research: what it means to “know” physics (or science … Continue reading →

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Extraordinary Rendition

Posted on February 10, 2006 by Ian

Ethan Zuckermann (one of the few people I’m inclined to think of as a “friend” after only one meeting) rattled my world today, without even meaning to. In a post on his weblog, he linked — tangentially, almost irrelevantly — … Continue reading →

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