THESE lectures formed part of a course on scientific method delivered at the University Extension summer meeting at Oxford last August. The discourses are intended to illustrate the forms taken by ...

Skip this paragraph if at any point it sounds familiar. A stereotypical American college student — let’s call him Michael Normalperson — goes to a college lecture class. He is bored. The time he doesn ...

Did you catch the clever little ambiguity in my title? First, I might be asking if every time a professor lectures it's unethical. Of course, the answer is no. Some lectures are wonderful. They're ...