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• Where are the Women? Speaking at Pace Law School

  
  Feminist Law Professors — Authority: 139
  Reading postings on FemLawProfs made me look at the faculty colloquia series I organized for Pace Law School this year.  Without any intention, we’ve scheduled 10 women and 9 men.   I don’t think exact parity is necessary for good intellectual exchange, but it certainly reflects that it’s far from impossible ...
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• IPMU in Tokyo Needs Support

  
  Cosmic Variance — Authority: 110
  Japan has had a long and distinguished tradition in modern physics. Just to pick one example, the amazing efforts of Shin’ichirō Tomonaga to understand quantum electrodynamics, anticipating the work of Schwinger and Feynman while remaining essentially isolated from the rest of the world during World War II. ...
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• Debaters Do Well

  
  The Debate Link — Authority: 428
  I already noted that one of my former vanquished debate opponents later went on to become a Rhodes Scholar . With this years http://www.rhodesscholar.org/press"> http://www.rhodesscholar.org/press">list out , I see at least two more debaters from my own era on the circuit have also attained that illustrious ...
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• Guest Post: RAND Islam and CIA Islam too…

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 125
  Charles Cameron has been guest blogging here in a series on radical Islamism and terrorism. A former researcher with the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, his most recent essay, an analysis of the powerpoint presentation of Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan , appeared in the ...
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• California (How Neoliberalism Works)

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 487
  The current crisis in the UC system came up again and again at the recession conference this weekend, and not only because a certain former Duke Lit student seems to have the uncanny ability to insert himself, Where’s-Waldo-style, in the center of  every photo coming out of the student protests. How the ...
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• Going to the Dogs

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 129
  My recent visit to the campus of the Black Warrior has provoked some consideration of accidental (?) correlations. Two in particular have been of high density in these: hush puppies; and food. I quite recognize that the average Southron will admonish that hush puppies are food and one of its highest forms, for both ...
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• A vaguely passive-aggressive post on commenters

  
  Crooked Timber — Authority: 647
  Ten types of commenter, of which the last are the rarest. The commenter who has not read the post properly, decides they know what it says anyway, and fires off a series of disgusted observations. Commenter who applies the most uncharitable possible interpretation to the post, and goes straight into rant ...
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• 0.179: Imperialism, Americanization, and the Social Sciences

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 116
  Cultural imperialism rests on the power to universalize particularisms linked to a singular historical tradition by causing them to be misrecognized as such. (Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1999, p. 41) If the social sciences are Eurocentric, does this also mean that they are imperialist? Where Immanuel ...
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• Too fat for a B.A.? University adds BMI requirement for graduation

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
  Pennsylvanias Lincoln University has instituted a requirement that first-year students who arrive on campus with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher must either lower their BMI below 30 or take a one-unit course called "Fitness for Life" in order to graduate. The Chronicle of Higher Education provides some ...
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• Illegally crossing the border, received in an e-mail.

  
  Boudica BPI Weblog — Authority: 129
  OK. I THINK I GET IT Let me see if I understand all this…. IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR. IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY. IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER, YOU GET SHOT. IF YOU CROSS THE TURKEY BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU SPEND THE ...
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• Links From Midprof

  
  EphBlog — Authority: 148
  Valued commentator Midprof (a professor at a peer institution in the midwest) sends in these two links about the academic hiring process: here and here . Good stuff. By the way, EphBlog is always looking for new authors. Join us! Midprof (or anyone else) would be welcome. If you are interested enough in Williams ...
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• Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 139
  Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate : Via Threat Level . An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent, British climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online. ...
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• ASU students: First Amendment protects their rights but not Sheriff Arpaio’s

  
  Seeing Red AZ — Authority: 484
  The State Press at Arizona State University runs a puzzling opinion piece by student Dustin Volz. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been invited to participate in a roundtable question and answer session with three Cronkite School of Journalism faculty members. Volz advises students against raucous ...
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• Princeton, Columbia Cancel Free Speech: Darwish Silenced

  
  netwmd.com - The War to Mobilize Democracy — Authority: 424
  By Phyllis CheslerIn our time, a speaker must face a gauntlet of hostility and a menacing crowd if she wishes to speak in favor of Israel or to tell the truth about Islam.That’s if she’s lucky. Most such speakers never get invited or when they do, their invitations are canceled.Nonie Darwish, the author of Cruel ...
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• Hacked Climate Scientists Emails Reveal Truth

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 668
  The University of East Anglia mail server was hacked earlier in the week and a string of private correspondences between esteemed climate scientists were published.  In addition to some juicy internecine gossip becoming embarrassingly public, a few of the messages seem to reveal doubts about the evidence for global ...
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• 10 things graduate students want

  
  home cooked theory — Authority: 100
  Over the past few months panelists for the SOI conference have been meeting and sharing plans for what they will present in their allotted time at the beginning of each session. The conference format is not the traditional paper-giving mode, but rather an open discussion with the audience following a series of ...
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• Cyberlaw Without PowerPoint

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 498
  Today, I participated in a terrific symposium at the Denver University School of Law based on Danielle Citron’s work on Cyber Civil Rights.  Two aspects of this symposium are particularly noteworthy, outside of the extremely interesting substance and the great group of speakers collected together by Danielle and ...
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• A requiem for academic blogging

  
  home cooked theory — Authority: 100
  I’m about to post an update in preparation for next week’s SOI conference , but it seemed fitting to mention separately that an article I wrote some time ago about labour politics and academic blogging has just been published in Convergence . Well, fitting in the sense that last week I was in NYC at a ...
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• Student Protests at UC Berkeley Campus

  
  Feminist Law Professors — Authority: 139
  Keep your eyes and ears open for news of what is happening right now at UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall (not part of the Law School).  There are unconfirmed reports of arrests of students occupying a University building and possible use of rubber bullets against the protesters.   Here and here are Twitter feeds from ...
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• Tips for Conveying How Busy and Important You Are

  
  Feminist Law Professors — Authority: 139
  Productivity advice — in the form of books and blogs — has become so ubiquitous that an entire sub-genre of criticism has developed in response.  Now it’s hip to critique as unproductive any focus on day-to-day work productivity (a la David Allen of Getting Things Done fame). The anonymous blogger  at ...
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