Changing the Look

I finished grading online homework and having consumed too much caffeine, I could not relax. So I started thinking about something to do. Our Anthropology teacher who pushed to change the name of our Division to Behavioral And Social Sciences sent me an email and signed off with BASS.
That gave me an idea to change the picture on this blog to a BASS. Most of the images on Google were ugly. Do you have any good pictures of this fish? Well send it my way and I may post it for you.

An Excellent Interview on Truth, Bias and Disagreements

As I have stated in previous posts, I listen to an extremely boring podcast called Econ Talk. The interviewer is Russel Roberts a free market economist and the person being interviewed is Daniel Klein at George Mason University. He starts the interview with stating his idealogy which is not the same as mine. However, Daniel Klein made me think about my own views. This interview is more about Philosophy and Sociology than Economics. This is an excellent interview. click here to listen

Dan Klein, of George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts on
truth in economics, bias, and groupthink in academic life. Along the way they
discuss the Food and Drug Administration (and the drug approval process), the
culture of academic life and the roles of empirical evidence and prediction
markets in adjudicating academic disagreement. The conversation closes with a
discussion of Econ Journal Watch--the watchdog journal Klein founded and
edits--and an invitation to listeners to join a discussion of The Theory of
Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith.

Birthday Boys and Girls

Today we served up cake at our Division meeting in honor of Adam, Carol, Jill, and Melissa. Jill was missing in action. Her excuse was some student club meeting. Sondra kept quiet but I found out that it was her birthday too.

Our Division and Our Colleagues

Tonight Adam introduced our Division to the Board of Trustee. Also Dr. Parnell introduced the new faculty. Two of the new faculty were part of our Division.



The following two videos are of two of our newest colleagues