Research as a Second Language

Martinus Rørbye, Scene Near Sorrento Overlooking the Sea , 1835. (Source: Nivaagaard Collection )

Jonathan raises a key issue in the comments to my last post . He points out that he does not consider my writing on this blog "bloggy...

The first chapter of Roland Barthes' Writing Degree Zero asks the simple question "What is Writing?" The answer is anything b...

"If this project is going to work at all it's going to work before you all become middle-aged." ( Seth Shostak ) Seth Shostak ...

Somewhere along the line of my career I started to think, "Okay, maybe I won't find the signal (I can do the best job I can [but] I...