Monday, July 4, 2011

1st sArticle Installment

In my view, arts and science are conjugates (a la a+bi and a-bi) that codetermine one another, the two sides of the same coin of true knowledge, and the Yin Yang of human intellectual endeavors. Consequently, I have devoted most of my teaching career toward taking advantage of the two to enable my students to reach a level of knowledge that is wholesome and truly sublime.


I submitted this sArticle to three journals and each turned it down for "not being suited for their readership" despite the fact that it was acknowledged to be creative and unique from an educational point of view. Following is the link to the sArticle and I hope you and your students would benefit from its insights, use its approach in your respective classrooms (with acknowledgement of its source of course), and share your thoughts about it and how you would expand upon it by posting comments in this blog.


sArticle 001: Artistic Creativity + Scientific Inquiry = Beautiful Understanding!
sAuthor: Taoufik Nadji (سيدي ناجي)


Note: There are sound files that accompany the article and they are available upon request.


Thank you, read, think, reflect, apply, and share! :-)


Peace, Shalom (שָׁלוֹם), Salam (سلام)

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Why sScientific Publications?


Welcome Fellow Educators & Future sAuthors:

In a democratic system everyone should have a fair chance to have his thoughts, ideas, and contributions to mankind's educational success see the light of day. Unfortunately, many major scientific (and probably in other fields as well) publications tend to have a skewed allowance for manuscripts submitted by university professors more so than the average high school and two-year college instructors.

So, it is my hope that this Blog would offer many high school and two-year college instructors the chance to have their work see the light of day. This is not a commercial endeavor, rather it is a strictly free educational attempt at disseminating innovative educational material. The onus and sole responsibility for the accuracy, respect of copyright laws, and integrity in originality claims of any future sPublished work, a la arXiv (except sScientific Publications Blog will not require endorsements), will squarely fall upon the sAuthors themselves because sScientific Publications has great faith in the professionalism of its sAuthors (any violations to the above red codes of proper educational conduct will lead to a removal of all links to the respective sWork and all related posts.)

The use of the cute small "s" is inspired by supersymmetry where every particle is believed to have a sister particle from a spin standpoint and in this case I, the originator and curator of this sScientific Publications Blog, am expressing my genuine belief that for every published work in any major scientific magazine there is a sister sWork that should have seen the light of day for it does contain ideas worthy of recognition and should be shared with everyone who believes in the advancement of scientific education.


Please, read the posted sPublications that are in your specific scientific field of study, learn from them, use them in your own instructional area of expertise, and provide encouraging and fair critiquing comments to help all of us achieve great progress that would benefit us, our students, and humankind in general.


Note to sAuthors: If you are web savvy, post your sWork to any web service of your choice (such as Scribd., Google Docs, Dropbox, etc. and then embed the link to those services within your post to this Blog so that it would get critiqued and read by a wider audience of educators. If you need help getting your sWork posted, please, send it as attachment to an email you send me (the Blog maintainer) and I will do my best to assist you in getting it posted to finally see the light of day. Good luck either way!

Thank you sReaders, sAuthors, and sRevolutionaries! sPublish everyone!