The Public Professor is a weekly column written by members of the faculty of the University of Lethbridge, on a wide range of topics from biology to history, geography to anthropology and more. To submit a question or comment to The Public Professor, email publicprof@lethbridgeherald.com.
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What is Religious Studies? |
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Written by Hillary P. Rodrigues
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Friday, 25 December 2009 |
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I went through an entire undergraduate education without even knowing that McGill University had a Faculty of Religious Studies dedicated mainly to the scholarly, secular study of religion. The bachelor of science program there required us to take only a few options outside our major, and so I was contentedly absorbed in choosing from available science courses.
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Throwing light on the Hanukkah story |
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Written by James Linville
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Friday, 18 December 2009 |
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Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival that ends at sunset today, commemorates the rededication of the second Jerusalem temple in 165 BCE (“Before the Common Era”, i.e., BC) , after its defiling by the Seleucid emperor, Antiochus IV.
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‘Lies, damned lies, and statistics’ |
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Written by Dan Johnson
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Friday, 11 December 2009 |
Why are scientists always so concerned with data and statistics? Don’t we have enough facts that are already known in the world?
On the contrary, continual fact-checking and the assumption that only part of the story is known are what give scientists the confidence to be able to make any claims at all.
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Women professors in the Canadian university system |
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Written by Jennifer Mather
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Friday, 27 November 2009 |
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Canadian universities are at the forefront of intellectual development. Does that mean that, believing in universalism, fostering people for their intellectual ability and not their social characteristics, they lead in inclusion of under-represented minorities?
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Impending Maya apocalypse? |
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Written by C. James MacKenzie
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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The 2012 Maya Doomsday Industry is heating up. Here in Guatemala, the jury is out on what might await us as dawn breaks on the 21st (some say 24th) of December 2012.
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