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• Scholarships

  
  Chillicious.com — Authority: 156
  If you’re considering attending college or furthering your education in any field, you may need help paying for your education. Scholarships are a great thing to sign up for because they do not need to be repaid like loans. The price of education has exploded the past few years and without some kind of help many ...
  1 hour ago

• Turner again says it is a crisis of economic theory

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 430
  Just a couple of months ago, Adair Turner created a stir with his review of financial crisis . He had blamed the efficient markets hypothesis and other ideas on financial economics for the crisis. In a recent speech he revisits the issues: This afternoon I will therefore do three things: First, review the ...
  3 hours ago

• Misconduct

  
  Internet Scofflaw — Authority: 139
  American Thinker has the story of an absolutely conclusive case of academic misconduct at International Journal of Climatology. Here’s the short version:One group of authors writes a paper that is critical of some existing work in climate research. The paper is accepted for publication after the usual peer-review ...
  4 hours ago

• “The Festive Library 2009″

  
  Bilingual Librarian — Authority: 122
  My friend Elissa just sent me the link to this great Christmas tree. The display was put together at the William H. Hannon Library, at the Loyola Marymount campus. Enjoy! Mi amiga Elisa me acaba de enviar el vínculo a un árbol de Navidad. El árbol se armo en la Biblioteca William H. Hannon de la universidad ...
  8 hours ago

• Grades Are In!

  
  Exploring Our Matrix — Authority: 602
  Ive submitted my final grades. I just need to post the separate grades for finals/essays, so that students can figure out why they got what they did, and then all the loose ends will be effectively wrapped up for the semester. For others who, like me, may be feeling a bit worn out after the process of either ...
  10 hours ago

• The Builder- Designing The Future of Educational Leadership

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  If we are to create "tomorrows" educationalorganization and model, are the leaders of "yesterdays" model theleaders we will need to build "tomorrows" model? If education is to be transformed, should we not transformits leaders? If we are to create a new educational organization, then does itfollow, we would need a ...
  12 hours ago

• Catching up on reading while on holidays

  
  Hummingbird604.com — Authority: 476
  photo credit: anselm Many people ask me “what do you do, Raul, when you go on holidays?” . Given my dual identity as a social media practitioner and an academic researcher, I often find myself admitting that I spent a substantial amount of time catching up on much-overdue reading while I’m on vacation. ...
  12 hours ago

• Making the most of the free trial period

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 158
  Filed under: Previews , Tips and tricks , Opinion , Academic The whole point of a free trial is to get you to buy the game. This is a fact of the genre, and we all know it. Correspondingly, we dont usually sign up for the free trial unless were relatively certain wed like to try the game in the first place. ...
  13 hours ago

• Making the most of the free trial period

  
  Massively — Authority: 650
  The whole point of a free trial is to get you to buy the game. This is a fact of the genre, and we all know it. Correspondingly, we dont usually sign up for the free trial unless were relatively certain wed like to try the game in the first place. But all too often, we try the game for one session, and then we miss ...
  13 hours ago

• Spun Silly: Academic Medical Center Cancer Treatment Advertising in the Era of Hype and Flim-Flam

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 526
  Over the weekend, the New York Times reported on how prestigious academic medical centers advertise cancer care.  Here are some examples, Prostate Cancer Surgery at Mount Sinai A print advertisement for prostate cancer surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan is typical of the way many elite research ...
  13 hours ago

• Step Two in Changing the World

  
  Intel Software Network Blogs — Authority: 522
  Intels recently released experimental 48-core chip is a wakeup call:  the multicore future of computing is already arriving now. Weve known for years that the number of cores per processor chip is bound to increase exponentially for the foreseeable future.  But releasing this 48-core system now means its now ...
  16 hours ago

• content writer for a website by armenp

  
  Freelancer jobs resources — Authority: 166
  I need a creative writer that can write content for a website. Details will be provided in PM. (Budget: $30-250, Jobs: Academic Writing, Article Rewriting, Report Writing, Research)Related posts: Sports Article Writer – Must be able to research topic and write unique content – oDesk Content Writer needed by ...
  16 hours ago

• The dangers of PvP-focused games

  
  Massively — Authority: 650
  Filed under: Game mechanics , PvP , Opinion , Academic The trouble with PvP is... well, there are several problems with PvP. The problems of balance are always there, of course, as they are in every aspect of the game. There are the problems of making PvP both accessible to new players and rewarding for ...
  18 hours ago

• The dangers of PvP-focused games

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 158
  The trouble with PvP is... well, there are several problems with PvP. The problems of balance are always there, of course, as they are in every aspect of the game. There are the problems of making PvP both accessible to new players and rewarding for veterans, their are issues with keeping people engaged in the ...
  18 hours ago

• Researcher behaviour

  
  Information Research - ideas and debate — Authority: 106
  The Research Information Network has just released a very interesting report (prepared by a team from the University of Loughborough and Manchester Metropolitan University) on the publication and communication behaviour of academic researchers. Communicating knowledge: how and why researchers publish and disseminate ...
  19 hours ago

• T’he NCAA Mega-Scam

  
  Black Athletes — Authority: 414
  Read More: Education , Florida State University , Football , NCAA , Seminoles , Sports , Student , University by Dr. Boyce Watkins , Syracuse University   4 ► Retweet SEND TO A FRIEND COMMENT NOW According to the ESPN Show "Outside the Lines," the Florida State Seminoles appear to be ...
  20 hours ago

• Dr. Boyce: NCAA is the Great Scam of the 21st Century

  
  Dr. Boyce Watkins "The People's Scholar" — Authority: 128
  Read More: Education, Florida State University, Football, NCAA, Seminoles, Sports, Student, Universityby Dr. Boyce Watkins 4 ► RetweetSEND TO A FRIENDCOMMENT NOWAccording to the ESPN Show "Outside the Lines," the Florida State Seminoles appear to be about everything except education.In order to win games and make ...
  20 hours ago

• Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 133
  For much of the last century, educators and many scientists believed that children could not learn math at all before the age of five, that their brains simply were not ready.
  21 hours ago

• Resource For Professors Looking For Teaching Position

  
  Ask-Dr-Kirk — Authority: 115
  Just got email from Dr. Jennifer Fowler  sharing the following resource for university professors or doctoral students looking for a job: Academic Careers Online, since 1998, is an academic job site where universities and colleges in the US, Canada, and around the globe, advertise faculty, ...
  22 hours ago

• Israeli army admits stealing organs

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  ISRAEL has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without their families permission. The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israels Abu Kabir forensic institute, Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 ...
  23 hours ago

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