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• Technological progress is like a boot to the neck.

  
  Acephalous — Authority: 494
  What would my dissertation have looked like were this a reality ?  Something like this: Jack London claimed that and do I really want to start a sentence with the name of the author crap Im quote unquote typing all this so yes comma insert comma insert comma fuck it so Jack London claimed that and Im going to ...
  7 hours ago

• Nerd News: NYU Student Exposes University Embezzlement

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 142
  Way to go! Of course, NYU itself is embarrassed (as it should be), but too petty even to thank the kid properly. As for the fact that the embezzlement occurred, anyone who has even a passing familiarity with campus life (on the non-student side) knows theres PLENTY of underhanded skulduggery going on!
  8 hours ago

• What to do with my life

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 636
  Please tell me how I can find out what to do with my life? Of course you cannot really tell me what to do with my life. Of course in the end I have to make up my mind and come up with a decision. But maybe you can help me a bit with my struggle or point me into the right direction (if there is any). About me: I am ...
  8 hours ago

• APA Eastern Division: Day 1

  
  To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth — Authority: 109
  Typical. I was just about to tweet from the APA Eastern today, only to have my phones battery run out. So, heres todays events, from my fortunately inimitable perspective. Took the train in from Queens to Times Square at about 4:30 or so. Times Square was a zoo. You could barely move for people. I dont know if thats ...
  21 hours ago

• soc phd programs #9: health

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 503
  Previous installments: strat/work , education , org studies ,  culture , urban , soc psych , demography , political sociology . This is easy, since Indiana is usually regarded as a leader in medical sociology & health. The following folks do health in one way or another: Pam Jackson (mental health, ...
  22 hours ago

• Terrorists best friend? Kenyan anti American apologist.

  
  Boudica BPI Weblog — Authority: 134
  Obama Emboldens Terrorists When former President George W. Bush spoke to terrorists his message was simple and clear: We will hunt you down and kill you! Period, end of story. W’s “clenched fist” kept America safe for nearly eight years following the 9.11 attack. Regrettably, since Barack Obama was ...
  23 hours ago

• Life at the Top

  
  Voir Dire — Authority: 117
  From PhD Comics : HT O&M .
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• Colossal Cave Adventure, an Exhibit

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 129
  Fascinating student project from Zach Whalens " A Videogame Canon " course. Adventure . Rules, Representation, and Meaning in Colossal Cave Adventure Analysis of Colossal Cave Adventure Social Impact Colossal Cave Adventure as an interactive narrative and similarites [sic] to fictional novels ...
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• Fouche on “Libeling Boyd”

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 125
  Joseph Fouche  blasts eminent scholar Dr. Colin S. Gray for doing to strategic theorist John Boyd what Gray’s fellow Clausewitzians complain that Martin van Creveld does to Carl von Clausewitz : Libeling Boyd Contrast this passage with two passages from Gray’s Another Bloody Century ...
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• Legal Scholarship on Climate Change

  
  Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy — Authority: 431
  I did a survey of all articles with “climate change” in the title in the past couple of years, and then did a rough breakdown of topics.  Although the survey was  unscientific, the results were intriguing: Topic Number of Articles Adaptation Biodiversity and public lands 11 Governance 5 ...
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• Free Introduction to Sociology Textbook (for adoption)

  
  Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD — Authority: 125
  Dear Colleagues, - and with Merry Christmas to all! This is a great time of year for changing textbooks and adopting our free Introduction to Sociology Text. Over the last fifteen years the cost of textbooks has outpaced inflation at a phenomenal rate. USA Today reports that over the past 25 years the average ...
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• They’re At It Again! Media ‘Covers’ U.N. Climate Conference

  
  American Conservative News Politics & Opinion - The Land of the Free — Authority: 141
  How much have you heard from the mainstream media about the hypocrisy that took place at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December, such as leaving thousands of NGO delegates out in the cold because, while they accredited 45,000 delegates, they only had room for 15,000; or how plutocrats from around ...
  2 days ago

• Season’s greetings and the two faces of global industrial restructuring

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 503
  Season’s Greetings and Happy Holidays to you all! I have been spending the past couple of days with our family at my wife’s parents in Iitti, about 150 km North East from Helsinki. I felt very touched by the Christmas church and opportunity to light candles at the cemetary. I have also been thinking about global ...
  2 days ago

• Crossroads panel

  
  home cooked theory — Authority: 99
  Proposals are due this week for Crossroads in Cultural Studies , to be held at Lingnan University in Hong Kong in June 2010. As a member of the conference committee I’ve been busy organising a number of the spotlight sessions over the past few months, but have yet to organise my own paper and panel! Eek! If ...
  2 days ago

• Repost-Camille Paglia At Arion: Why Break, Blow, Burn Was Successful

  
  Chris Navin — Authority: 126
  Full post here . A few positives : —Paglia is intellectually deep, and someone of broad aesthetic understanding and experience.  She also enjoys good poems.  She has tirelessly criticized the professionalization of poetry and its move into academia (largely doing so from outside of academia).  In ...
  3 days ago

• Another enviro law prof in the administration

  
  Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy — Authority: 431
  It’s a time for catching up, so here’s an appointment I’m embarrassed to admit I missed when it was announced. Marcilynn Burke has taken a leave from the University of Houston Law Center to become Deputy Director (Programs and Policy) of the Bureau of Land Management . This is a terrific appointment. The ...
  3 days ago

• Annals of Bad Amazon Reviews

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 676
  While working on my Statecraft and the State syllabus, I happened upon this Amazon review of Margaret Levis Of Rule and Revenue: "As specialization and division of labor increase, there is greater demand on the state to provide collective goods where once there were solely private goods or no goods at all." From ...
  3 days ago

• Helen Thomas: "Obama Is No FDR – Republican Mission Is To See Obama Fail [WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  WASHINGTON -- The spirit of Christmas seems to have escaped Congress, maybe even the country. Have you ever encountered such mean spiritedness and political conniving as are now on display on Capitol Hill? In the past, we have had great philosophical divisions in the struggle for civil rights, especially when southern ...
  3 days ago

• I’m not dead, just in academia

  
  Heroine Sheik — Authority: 91
  Okay, this has definitely been the longest I’ve ever gone without posting to Heroine Sheik. My poor, poor sex and technology baby. Anyways, contrary to popular opinion (or what I can assume of it) I am not dead, I’ve only disappeared into the black hole that is academia. Now that I have a month-ish off between ...
  3 days ago

• Update!: PhD submitted & now in the US for MLA and Microsoft SCS

  
  Universe Creation 101 — Authority: 91
  Whew!! I did it!!!!! I finally submitted my PhD!!!!!! It has been a crazy few years finishing that thesis writing up and doing all the travel and work stuff at the same time. I’ll share more about the content of my thesis, the research and writing process and lessons learned soon. I’ll also be sharing [...]
  3 days ago

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