Sunday, May 9, 2004

WHAT'S NEXT? PRINCETON*BERT? CHICAGOTRON 2084? CALTECHZERK?--There are moments I'm quite proud to be an alumnus of NYU Law School. There have been two this week. The first was when Bryan Stevenson, a professor at NYU Law School was one of the guests on Air America Radio's "Majority Report." The second, is, of course, the fact that NYU students have come up with PacManhattan, an interactive, live-action version of Pac Man played on the streets of Greenwich Village.

In less proud news, I was reminded today, due to a small feature article, of the story of Alan Sokol, who made up an article claiming that mathematical theory had feminist politic applications, then admitted he made the whole thing up, saying it was an experiment in deconstructing academic theory. Honestly, who would have been taken by an article titled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity."

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