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11 days ago by goosecommerce

Or, Do PhDs roll Twenties? Wow. This L.A. Times story — a version of this much better reported year-old piece by Scott Jaschik at InsideHigherEd — describes a colossally bad idea on which ETS ( Educational Testing Service) is trying to sell graduate admissions deans. Put very briefly: ETS has come u ...

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15 days ago by [Cerebrl]

Snipped from Forbes.com. “It’s nonsense that the private insurance companies need to be protected,” he says. “Why? Because they’ve done such a good job?” quips Dr. Scheiner, President Obama’s former physician. President Obama seems to be on a mission to water down nearly all of the policies that he ...

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23 days ago by goosecommerce

How Crafty? So Crafty Remember when we were talking about how crafty historians are?* Well, other, smarter people have been having the same great idea. Let me fill you in… Michèle Lamont, author of How Professors Think, has been guest-blogging over at Crooked Timber, and in between trolling the phil ...

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30 days ago by Mark Knowles

Ebony Ivory Investors Group, 500 international property buyers and investors, have signed a petition requesting Dubai’s Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) and the Dubai Ruler’s Court to investigate the Jumeirah Lakes Towers Ebony Ivory Towers project, involving Al Fajer Properties and its marke ...

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32 days ago by goosecommerce

Or, Driving Changes Not so long ago*, Kieran Healy over at OrgTheory did some interesting riffing on an idea in Jon Elster’s new book about Alexis de Tocqueville. He put together a list of different innovations in social theory, grouping them by how they characterize the relationships between differ ...

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52 days ago by PolarBear

State of Mind: Alarmed & AngryYesterday Twitter implemented a change that, according to the powers that be, 98% of Twitter users wouldn’t notice. They took away an option - one that was not turned on by default, but one that people who use Twitter as a way to explore and find interesting people and ...

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63 days ago by inspectia.net

In the accomplished year, poachers in Congo accept dead a fifth of the Savannah elephants in Virguna Civic Park. In the accomplished ten canicule alone, Rwandan rebels accept dead seven of the elephants in Virunga, forth Congo's eastern bound with Rwanda and Uganda."We've absolutely absent 20 percen ...

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72 days ago by goosecommerce

Why is it that papers about money always read like Hegel wrote them? I.e. simultaneously Really Important and Uncannily Soporific. Seriously folks, time to deploy some verbs, start using normal capitalization, and use words that make sense. And then maybe I won’t fall asleep like four times while tr ...

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78 days ago by ENNYMAN

"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential." ~Ayn Rand I began reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead yesterday and it brought to mind an art project from when I was in high school. Everyone was supposed to design a house. The pic ...

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89 days ago by goosecommerce

but more like basket weaving Q. Can you tell us about specific disciplines and how they fare in peer-reviewed competitions? In history there is a high degree of consensus among scholars about what is good. But it is not based so much on a common theory, or method, or whether people think the discipl ...

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