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• Innumeracy and risk-perception in healthcare

  
  sjhoward.co.uk — Authority: 113
  Which of the following numbers represents the biggest risk of getting a disease? 1 in 100, 1 in 1000, or 1 in 10? Almost 30% of Germans and 25% of Americans answered this question incorrectly in this study of statistical numeracy . It’s an interesting reminder that healthcare professionals shouldn’t ...
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• The "Arts" and "Academia" are Drawn to Fascism.

  
  The Virginian — Authority: 489
  Check out "Nazi Family Values" “Many Nazi officials came from the educated middle class of German society, and in his comments on the trial of Einsatzgruppen members in Nuremberg after the war, the British historian Gerald Reitlinger (author of The SS, Alibi of a Nation, a superb study of the SS) observed of ...
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• Online Dissertation Writers

  
  Sxycsb Healthy Tips and Information — Authority: 113
  Help thesis writing is hard work and raw paper for all students, regardless of the students are holding a student in the class. It is very interesting for students is an expert writer who is able to provide students in their research and writing to support the work should be selected. Well documented argument, anyway. ...
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• The Asia Foundation And OOCL To Distribute 400,000 Books Across Asia

  
  AsianScientist.com | Online News and Information For The Asian Student, Post-Doc and Research Community — Authority: 468
  The Asia Foundation will partner with logistics company Orient Overseas Container Line to distribute an estimated 402,000 books across Asia.
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• Saturday Lecture Series: An Interview with Francis Fukuyama

  
  The Blogmocracy — Authority: 549
  Francis Fukuyama is famous in the International Affairs circles for stating that the end of the Cold War was the End of History. It can be found in its entirety here. Please re-acquaint yourselves with it, or if you have no idea what I am on about, do read it in the mind of 1989, [...]
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• Dissed

  
  Union, Trueheart, and Courtesy — Authority: 105
  Ive had occasion recently to think about a complex of emotions with which I have limited experience. Disrespect is not something Ive paid attention to for the first four decades of my life. Before the last few years, I doubt I could have articulated what disrespect feels like, and what it means. But now Ive ...
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• Potter’s decision looking foolish

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 121
  This morning, I found this tasty tidbit of information about the importance of aviation to the economy: “This measure is key to advancing the nearly 8 percent of our nation’s economy impacted by the aviation industry,” said House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John L. Mica, Florida ...
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• Pod people: Birth control or religious liberty?

  
  GetReligion — Authority: 635
  Finally. I think someone may have had a journalistic epiphany on the whole Health and Human Services thing. But before we go there, stop and, for a moment, join me in contemplating the following journalism puzzle. The Obama administration’s new HHS regulations — click here for a sample of GetReligion coverage ...
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• U Buffalo Faculty Wants School to Stop Supporting Business Groups That Endorse Conservative Causes

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 135
  Yesterday’s Chronicle includes an article  Faculty Union Calls on U. at Buffalo to Cut Ties to Chambers of Commerce  that mentions Feminist Law Professor Martha McCluskey.   Journalist Peter Schmidt writes: Opening a new front in the conflict between college labor unions and conservative advocacy groups, the ...
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• Develop a Windows Phone Game, Win A Dell Alienware M18x Gaming Rig

  
  JrzyShr Dev Guy — Authority: 105
  Back in October, when I announced a series of HTML5 Game Camp Events , I suggested that if you think learning how to develop video games is of little value, then you’re quite mistaken. I commented that the list of top apps in any of the major mobile phone marketplaces are virtually all GAMES!  That’s still ...
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• Can Humanities Undergrads Learn to Code?

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 472
  Rebecca Davis , NITLE Logo National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education , February 3, 2012. I would never have though this would be an issue, but apparently "a recurring motif along the lines that coding (markup and programming) is so difficult that undergraduates trained in the humanities cannot learn it ...
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• 3 Count: No More Notes

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 487
  Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday . 1: Polish Premier Stops Ratification of Internet Anti-Piracy Treaty First off today, Poland has announced that it is delaying ratification of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) for at least one year to give ...
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• A Personal Announcement

  
  An und fr sich — Authority: 520
  On Wednesday I was offered and accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at La Salle University. I am overwhelmed with gratitude right now and very excited to be joining this department. The other faculty have created a very supportive environment for their students as well as for each ...
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• January roundup: What does it take to bring technology to market?

  
  inmedia Public Relations Inc. - High tech public relations — Authority: 107
  This week marked the one-year anniversary of our new blog. We thank you for being with us and participating in our conversations, which covered a whole host of technology marketing issues. Last month, we offered new counsel for startups from startup founders themselves. Screenreach, Host Analytics, CommentAir, ...
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• Fragmentation

  
  madpraxis.ca: surviving psychiatric assault — Authority: 79
  I’d rather be shittered than shattered but the latter seems like the baseline when trying to “do too much” as certain mentors caution. I look confused and reply “I thought that’s what grad school was all about?” and am surprised to hear otherwise. I guess I underestimated the scope of the transition from ...
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• Whatever you do, dont be yourself!

  
  Kids Prefer Cheese — Authority: 549
  Great essay in Inside Higher Ed on how "just be yourself" is horrible advice for academics going out on the job market. Immortal line: "Sorry Academics; you suck at interviewing" . Mrs. Angus and I very very much emphasize to our students that they absolutely should NOT be themselves and spend a month or two ...
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• Transforming Troubled Schools

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 479
  
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• Taking Anthropology, Introduction

  
  Savage Minds — Authority: 500
  Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Jason Antrosio. [I realize the irony of prominently citing American Anthropologist during the Open Access debates--I do end with a call to support Rexs proposal to read and talk about HAU ] These major waves of anthropology’s critical self-examination were the neo-Marxist, ...
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• Celebrity Friday: Freeman Hrabowski, University President

  
  The Mad Professah Lectures — Authority: 421
  For todays Celebrity Friday for the first Friday in Black History Month our subject is Freeman Hrabowski, III , the President of the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Hrabowski, 61, is one of the great role models for African Americans  in the Academy. Here is just an excerpt of his official biography : ...
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• Cloud William

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 112
  One of my colleagues, Current Density Magnetic Inductance, and I have been carrying on a discussion on nerd eBooks for some time. My colleague, who is much more comfortable with the evil-that-is-Apple is happy with his iPud but he is quick to declaim that this is the only Apple box he owns – now. He has used Apple ...
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