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Pursuing Professorship, Ctd
Originally posted on The Dish: A doctoral student writes: The only reason why there’s a glut of PhD graduates without jobs is that the availability of full-time tenure-track professorships has declined. Why is that? It’s not because of demand. There’s… Continue reading
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▶ Little Mix – Holy Grail/Counting Stars/Smells Like Teen Spirit in the Live Lounge
▶ Little Mix – Holy Grail/Counting Stars/Smells Like Teen Spirit in the Live Lounge – YouTube. Continue reading
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Denutting a Will
As my colleague Bob F. comments, a beautiful takedown of a pundit who has become ever nuttier. Even if Will didn’t have his facts backward, the larger point is that his analysis of transportation choices as a cultural struggle is… Continue reading
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Reinventing the Wheel: A Brief History of the Circle as a Visual Metaphor for Organizing Information | Brain Pickings
“Everything rolls, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being,” Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Indeed, it seems that for as far back as we’re able to peer into human history, the wheel has been one of our… Continue reading
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Supremely Smug Plutocrats vs. the Supreme Pontiff
My claim: The wealthiest Plutocrats within the 1% use religion and its morality to support their estate as the most powerful. Toward that end, such men and women will often weigh in on issues that they do not care so… Continue reading
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Distractions and Slippery Slopes in US Healthcare
Everyone in the United States who is healthy could at any moment, due to an accident or an unknown genetic predisposition, find her/himself in need of medical care. The whole point for some kind of medical insurance rests on not… Continue reading
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