Pielke Sr studied the human impacts on climate long before it was a trendy field.
To Shkolnik's chagrin, his middle-aged son – Professor Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi), also a Talmudic specialist – has been showered with all the awards and fellowships that he himself yearned for, having industriously turned out a trendier, cultural-studies-type of relativist criticism, the sort of work Shkolnik despises as lacking in rigour and objectivity.
When Simple Minds were in their 80s, stadium-filling pomp, they all but disowned their earlier, art-rock material, which had been revered by rock critics but didn't broaden their appeal far beyond left-field, club-frequenting trendies who studied the music press.
The educational risks they face, meanwhile, are three: premature vocationalism (too many accounting or teaching-methods courses; not enough art, literature, history and philosophy); being swept up in trendy academic ephemera (gender studies, oppression studies, etc).; and the temptations of personal freedom (partying rather than studying).
Much has been made of the "modish" and "trendy" approach to studying history, based on examining source material and trying to foster thinking skills.
Unless you are also one of the fortunate or shrewd few who decided to study something intellectually trendy, a good chunk of your working year will also be spent dutifully filing grant applications that will be just as dutifully rejected.
When we choose to study a subject that isn't trendy.
This invites the possibility that those who built the study had simply chosen trendy words.
"Memetics" -- the study of memes -- is trendy these days, but Palumbi correctly points out that in many ways ideas do not evolve like DNA.
But two molecular genetics studies published this week show that the trendy treatments can be harmful, as well.
