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Could Isaac Newton Get a Faculty Job?

Posted by timothy on from the fella-with-the-nutty-apple-theory dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Could Isaac Newton get a faculty job, or is modern society too intolerant of eccentricity? That's one of the questions that Glenn Reynolds asks Neal Stephenson in this interview over at TechCentralstation. Others involve the changing nature of fame in an age of fragmented media, the role of the Seventeenth Century in shaping the modern world, and what it's like to write a book with a fountain pen, in the twenty-first century."

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  1. Full Disclosure by DogIsMyCoprocessor · · Score: 0, Troll

    Glenn Reynolds is a partisan right-wing hack who believes that if you opposed the war with Iraq, you are "objectively pro-Saddam".

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    "And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."

  2. Re:Depends by BenitoM · · Score: 0, Troll
    And sad to say these type of people proliferate and continue to indoctrinate their students.

    Are these the kind of people we want training our future leaders? And what are we going to do about it?

  3. The author of the Big U does not have academic xp by Dusabre · · Score: 0, Troll

    Today, well, I don't have enough firsthand experience with the modern academic world to have a sound opinion.

    And this is from the autor of the Big U. A book about the modern academic world... Hmm...

    So perhaps he doesn't have enough experience with Finux to write about it.