Ivory Tower

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• Federal Computer Week - Discussion of ITIL and EA

  
  User-Centric Enterprise Architecture — Authority: 107
  Services listed under ITIL and enterprise architecture models are different in nature, said Andy Blumenthal, chief technology officer at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who did not speak on behalf of the agency. “When we talk about services in an EA context, we refer to those that are ...
  5 days ago

• This Aint How An Asipiring Economic Rival That Id Worry About Acts

  
  Fear and Loathing In Georgetown — Authority: 531
  It sounds an awful lot like the universities over there are simply diploma mills if you are important enough: Graduate enrollment in PhD programs has grown by some 23.4% annually since 1982. In comparison, the average annual growth rate for students enrolling in masters degrees during the same period was 15%. By the ...
  1 week ago

• Re-defining the Right Wing

  
  Life on the Blade — Authority: 104
  “The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortunes spite; revive from ashes and rise.” - - Miguel de Cervantes Shadows of traditions past cast feathers both chicken and eagle…The term right wing was hatched during the French Revolution as the seating ...
  1 week ago

• In keeping with the old world/new world theme of the holiday

  
  The Adventures of Notorious Ph.D., Girl Scholar — Authority: 118
  ...my new nephew arrived this week, and now rejoices in the first/middle name combination of: Henry Hudson. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! And remember: the best part of the Thanksgiving meal is the pie-for-breakfast the day after.
  1 week ago

• Radical History News Round-up

  
  Edward Vallance — Authority: 107
  Readers of this blog may have noticed the changed strap-line. I’ve pilfered this quote from Natalie Bennett’s very kind review of my book . I particularly like the potential flexibility of this description. One commenter on the site is unconvinced, suggesting that I am ‘too much the ivory-tower academic’ who ...
  1 week ago

• Subjectivity In Grading

  
  Fear and Loathing In Georgetown — Authority: 531
  Phoebe recently posted about objectivity in grading: There is a rather widespread idea amongst college students - and I remember this from college myself - that a good grade on even an undeniably quantitative assignment means the teacher likes me, whereas a bad grade is assumed the result of a teacher extracting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Easy pass

  
  goNZo Freakpower Brains Trust — Authority: 424
  Auckland University wins this wet bus ticket for their behaviour trying to smooth over Witi Ihimaeras plagiarism. Its not easy being a writer. Just ask Alan Duff. Ihimaera is doing his best to make things right, but theres no excuse for the alleged bastion of novel thought holding a member of faculty to a lower ...
  2 weeks ago

• Math Pedagogy

  
  Fear and Loathing In Georgetown — Authority: 531
  I found this article about the influence of progressive social goals in math curriculum fascinating. At some level though I think, or rather hope, that the influence of political and social goals on math curriculum is overstated. Isnt math pretty much math? Doesnt everybody pretty much learn adding fractions, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Department of Bad Ideas: American Political Development

  
  nobody sasses a girl in glasses — Authority: 416
  Sometimes Miss Self-Important makes mistakes. A recent example of this alarmingly frequent phenomenon was selecting American politics as my second field. I innocently imagined that something called American politics would be about America and politics, both of which I have some interest in. Turns out, no. Its ...
  3 weeks ago

• Who does Lieberman really represent?

  
  My Corner To Vent — Authority: 129
  Lieberman, the independent rouge of the senate, has said that he will vote with the republicans if there is a public option to the health care bill. His siding with republicans should not be of any surprise. It was pretty obvious that he was going to he McCain’s running mate until the party extremists forced him ...
  3 weeks ago

• Loss Aversion, Behavioral Finance, and the Asymmetry of Volatility and Returns

  
  Condor Options — Authority: 456
  M. Levy, “ Loss aversion and the price of risk ,” Quantitative Finance (forthcoming): Abstract: This paper derives a simple theoretical relationship between the degree of loss aversion, the concavity/convexity of the value function, and the equilibrium market price of risk. We show that while the degree of loss ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jew Hatred on Campus-Deja Vu

  
  Jewish Internet Defense Force — Authority: 516
  (Israelnationalnews.com) Campus political extremism today is shocking. Large numbers of university professors and administrators advocate positions that combine support for totalitarian Islamofascism and its terrorists with deep hatred of Israel and anti-Americanism. How did this come about in the twenty-first ...
  4 weeks ago

• Problematizing my vacation

  
  nobody sasses a girl in glasses — Authority: 416
  Will I go home for Christmas this year, or will I be stuck alone in frozen Cambridge, ringing in the new year next to a tiny space heater in the Widener stacks (open only until 5 pm during vacation!) in a monumental effort to avoid accumulating incompletes from this semester? So far, as you can see from the posts ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Memo regarding Corporate Social Media policies

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 145
  From: @TheManagementTeam To: @TheEmployees Subject: Corporate Social Media Policies It has come to management’s attention (we own your PCs, the network and the log files, remember?) that our employees are spending an increasingly large amount of time on Social Networks – and that we may have ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Nazi at Harvard

  
  This Side of the Pond — Authority: 123
  In Anthony Grafton’s review of The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower for the NYRBlog , the indictment and complexities of US-German ties in the buildup to World War II. In 1934, the Harvard class of 1909 held its 25th reunion—then as now an occasion for members of the American elite to parade in public ...
  5 weeks ago

• Kill your campaign: 3 youth marketing strategies that actually work (Mobile Youth)

  
  Stompernet SEO Course — Authority: 166
  Step out the ivory tower a minute, forget direct marketing or social media and take a look at the world of the young consumer and, importantly, what works.
  5 weeks ago

• A suggestion

  
  nobody sasses a girl in glasses — Authority: 416
  I think a really useful invention, after a wind-proof umbrella, would be a portable foot that I can put in my mouth after about 10 minutes of conversation with anyone in academia.
  5 weeks ago

• Other Classes FLG Is Considering

  
  Fear and Loathing In Georgetown — Authority: 531
  Not that many or any of you care, but here they are anyway: International Trade Relations The Constitution and U.S. Foreign Intelligence Catholic Natural Law Classical Political Philosophy Security in Africa American Political Theory Cicero: A New Man in the Courts of Rome French Crime Fiction EU ...
  6 weeks ago

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