Doc Ott’s Apologia Blog

This is just a taste of a much longer article that I want to write, but I want to get it down roughly here…
For thousands of years (think Socrates, Plato) ‘higher education’ was a place were the wisest of people came and literally sat at the feet of the wise men who contemplated […]

It makes a lot of sense if you think about it, really.
The recipe for success: get happy and you will get ahead in life
Anyone who has ever met me knows that I am very happy person most of the time. I try very hard to not hang around people who are always depressed […]

Here is a cool site on religious tolerance, which includes a lot of stuff about each individual faith, their similairities and differences. A wonderful reasource for me when writing my book.

I feel my most important job as a college professor is to teach critical thinking skills, not to teach complex one-use algorithms to students. The students I teach in my General Chemistry class want to go on to become doctors, pharmacists, engineers, etc. They need the skills to look at a problem, know what information […]

For a while I have thought about getting in my car with my laptop (with wireless antenna) and wandering around town seeing how many wireless routers there are out there just leaking (free) bandwidth into the street. I start looking around and stumbled onto (pun intended ) http://www.netstumbler.com/ which is a nice little program […]