BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | October 02 2013
The Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars released this morning the results of a new national survey of postdocs. The survey captured not only demographic information –
who are postdocs in Canada? – but also their primary concerns. (The full report is
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/margin-notes/the-needs-of-postdocs-continue-to-be-ignored/
Margin Notes
BY LÉO CHARBONNEAU | June 12 2015
It can be done, with some effort, says a panel at this year’s Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Imagine you’re a deputy minister of health and you wished to take a look at what data is being collected on the healthcare system. You discover that you know only a little about the problems patients come in with, that you stopped collecting data on doctors years ago, and that you have almost no d...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/margin-notes/filling-in-the-postsecondary-education-data-gaps/
The Black Hole
BY DAVID KENT | February 21 2010
This short blog entry argues that when looking at the relationship or science and society, the majority of scientists only see (and avoid) the energy barrier in front of them and fail to imagine and strive toward the products on the other side. There are of course exceptions to the rule and this article hopes to inspire such visionary thinking. It contends that the products, similar to those in a chemical reaction, will provide a state that will in their own time lead to less energy expenditure for scientists.
A high school geology teacher once explained to me a guiding philosophy for his life which seemed quite confusing at the time – he called it “The least work principle” which stated that one should always aspire to expending the least amount of effort to get an outcome. I thought “Great, I ha...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/the-least-work-principle-and-catalysing-from-complacency/