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‘A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking,’ by Adam Briggle – The New York Times
Adam Briggle–my friend, colleague, and PhD director–gets a nice review of his latest book from the New York Times. Really glad to see this. Many reviews closer to Texas and to PetroDollars totally mischaracterized this important book. In his investigation of… Continue reading
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Brain Drain and Brain Gain
In a new book, “Paying the Professoriate,” to be published this month, Mr. Altbach and his co-editors examine academic salaries, contracts and benefits in publicly funded universities in 28 countries. They depict a world increasingly divided “into two categories —… Continue reading
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“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.”
A wonderful graduation speech from George Saunders to the Syracuse University Class of 2013. Down through the ages, a traditional form has evolved for this type of speech, which is: Some old fart, his best years behind him, who, over… Continue reading
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A Brief Outbreak Of Draconian Sanity | Esquire
A conviction on this charge [“aiding the enemy”] literally would have criminalized the dissemination of information, which is the central purpose of the First Amendment, as long as one of our many purported enemies had access to a computer, or… Continue reading
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Lookout: Extreme Profiling
It should be clear to folks by now this was not a vendetta against Tea Baggers and those who rant & rave against Obama and/or Obamacare. This is just another form of surveillance by profiling. Obviously we should think of… Continue reading
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Study: Immigrant contributions a boon to Medicare
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A new study reveals that immigrants’ contributions to Medicare generated a $115 billion surplus from 2002 to 2009. I am glad to see a study was at last accomplished to demonstrate what common sense… Continue reading
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New Test for Computers: Grading Essays at College Level
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions “Software developed by a joint venture of Harvard and M.I.T. uses artificial intelligence to grade student essays and short written answers, freeing professors for other tasks.” See on nyti.ms Related articles Essay-Grading Software (florence20.typepad.com)… Continue reading
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Dependents of the State – NYTimes.com
…if the poor are dependent on the state, so, too, are America’s rich. The extraordinary accumulation of wealth enjoyed by the socioeconomic elite — in 2007, the richest 1 percent of Americans accounted for about 24 percent of all income… Continue reading
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Can Colleges Ever Really Be Accountable?
I go on a bit about our system of higher education. Mostly I do this because I have been in and around it for over two decades so it is a beast that is quite familiar to me. But that… Continue reading
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A Liberal Moment – NYTimes.com
Still hard to believe, I told a friend the other day while trying to fathom the election results, that pot is legal in my state, gays are free to marry, and a black man who vowed to raise taxes on… Continue reading
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