Federalist essay on racial identity
As you all know, I care about diversity–racial as well as intellectual. As someone who increasingly leans right on many issues, it bothers me how conserva...
As you all know, I care about diversity–racial as well as intellectual. As someone who increasingly leans right on many issues, it bothers me how conserva...
It’s often assumed that a problem must be understood and explained before it can be solved. Let’s call this view the linear model problem solving, a...
Victor has a fantastic response to my last post that I strongly recommend. I hope to have a more detailed response soon. In the meantime, I’ll highlight t...
About two months ago I highlighted this quote: Diversity is not just demographic/identity. It includes knowledge, expertise, personality and thinking styles #NP...
This post is a placeholder for something I want to expand on. Here’s a quote from Shakira Nelson at a post-doc conference in March: Diversity is not just ...
The other day I was chatting with one of my more successful friends about her career. She’s worked in international development for a global foundation, c...
Last month I was trying to work through some thoughts on diversity. Rather than make a strained link to science and religion, I decided to write a stand-alone e...
Lani Guinier of Harvard Law School touts the virtues of diversity (emphasis added): Diversity is not simply a matter of having people who look different sitting...
My friend Kenny Gibbs has a follow-up to his last post on diversity in science. From the introduction: One of the most commonly used metaphors for describing th...
A couple months ago my friend Kenny Gibbs wrote a great post about diversity and science for Scientific American. I want to reflect on this sentence (emphasis...