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• A Poet Is… what Bob Dylan has to say.

  
  Another Lost Shark — Authority: 128
  Dylan is one of the most quoted artists of our time, and rightfully so. Just check out these nuggets of wisdom if you need any convincing: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. ...
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• U of M Academic Health Center nets nearly $35 million in federal stimulus grants

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 160
  (University of Minnesota) Academic Health Center scientists, physicians and research centers have attracted 128 grants totaling nearly $35 million in federal stimulus money (as of Nov. 10) since the American [...]
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• David French: The inexcusable act of upholding the Constitution

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  David French, Director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom , writing at National Review’s Phi Beta Cons blog : "Late last week, ADF Center for Academic Freedom attorneys issued a cease-and-desist letter in a remarkable case involving Sacramento City College. The story begins, ironically enough, with a request ...
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• Workplace Violence -- How to recognize its warning signals

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Last weeks shooting at Fort Hood was a criminal act of senseless violence against innocent victims whod done nothing to harm their assailant. As the FBI, army officials, police investigators and forensic psychologists continue to piece together the events and motives behind this brutal act, many of us scratch our ...
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• Festive Disobedience, or, Direct Action Can Be Fun

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 452
  Everywhere you look, students and faculty are hitting the streets–digital music in their ears, cell phone cameras in hand, uploading their manifestos from occupied dean’s offices. It turns out civil disobedience doesn’t have to be boring. The membership of the grad student union at the University of Illinois ...
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• Raymond Luc Levasseur allowed to speak after cancellation

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Massachusetts, Nov 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A terror bomber Raymond Luc Levasseur who has spent 18 years in a federal prison will now be allowed to speak at the University of Massachusetts on Thursday after his speech was originally canceled due to his terror leanings. The phenomenal turnaround happened because a group of ...
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• NTNU Boycott Campaign: Will They or Won’t They?

  
  Z-Word Blog — Authority: 536
  A few developments in recent days could reasonably lead one to conclude that, come Thursday, the Board of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) will vote against the proposal for a blanket boycott of Israeli academia, culture and research. Perhaps most significantly, as relayed by the indispensable ...
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• Withdrawing Journals: Ithaka Report

  
  Swiss Army Librarian — Authority: 118
  In case you missed it, Ithaka release a report in September titled “What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization” [pdf] . It’s really geared towards academic libraries looking to achieve a balance between digitizing journals for access (and repurposing the floorspace they took ...
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• AMU ties up with Holland varsity for promoting research

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Lucknow, Nov 10 (IANS) Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the INHolland University of Amsterdam for undertaking joint activities in educational and cultural research and training, an official said Tuesday.“As per the MoU, the two universities can go for the exchange ...
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• Portræt i Forskerforum + blogpost om forskningsfrihed

  
  Klastrup's Cataclysms — Authority: 98
  UK: this post relates to a feature in a Danish magasine on research politics and a blogpost related to Danish research politics, which is why the post is in Danish. I denne måneds nummer af Forskerforum er der et lille portræt af mig og min forskning. Du kan se hele nummeret her (pdf-format, se s 22). De har ...
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• Green Directory for Colleges

  
  Going Green @your library — Authority: 114
  From AASHE bulletin : Duke University (NC) has launched a free directory of environmental information at nearly 2,000 U.S. colleges and universities. The directory provides listings of environmental degree programs as well as environmental opportunities and organizations at campuses around the country. The ...
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• Short Sentence, Artful Sentences

  
  Writing Material — Authority: 119
  This entry is a response to Derek’s post , about teaching the first chapter of Virgina Tufte ’s book Artful Sentence: Syntax as Style in his writing course. I’m not teaching this semester, so I can reflect on the book in that context, but I did want to reflect a little on what a book like this is good for. ...
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• Banking on the State Support and vice versa

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  Andrew Haldane once again. I have been covering his works in the crisis and all have been excellent reading ( here , here and here ). In his recent paper cum speech  co-written with  Piergiorgio Alessandri  he tells you how banks have changed over the years: Historically, the link between the state and ...
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• Science can, at times, feel like religion

  
  Entertaining Research — Authority: 121
  Zuska explains how : Wilson wasn’t saying science IS a religion in the sense that there’s no real underlying objective reality, everything’s all taken on faith, and we all get together and worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster at Friday seminar. But Jesus Christ, I was a grad student once, and I’ll be damned ...
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• Book Launch: TRANS: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa

  
  Jacana — Authority: 127
  Jacana Media and Fanele are delighted to invite you to the Cape Town and Johannesburg launches of TRANS: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa . This is the first book of its kind in South Africa and indeed Africa. It takes the reader on a journey into the many worlds inhabited by transgender South Africans, ...
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• Benefits of GST for Indian economy

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  I had posted a while back  on India’s goods and service tax. In that post I had pointed to a primer and a speech from Dr Kelkar. In that speech Dr Kelkar had estimated the gains of GST for Indian economy based on similar gains made in Canada. In his recent speech (not recent actually, given in October 2009) he ...
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• How to Write Academic Paper

  
  WikanPribadi.com — Authority: 118
  As students, you need to write academic custom written paper in order to present your knowledge, ideas, and facts you want to know through research. Besides that you have to make it because you need pass some subjects. There must be perfect structure to make academic custom written paper . It is important thing ...
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• Literacy Challenges of The Social Technographic Ladder

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  The ladder. Charlene Li and Josh Bernofff have written a great book titled Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies . In their book they describe The Social Technographics ladder. “Each step on the ladder represents a group of consumers moreinvolved in the groundswell than the ...
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• Beasiswa S3 Swiss: Doctoral Position (Research and Teaching Assistant)

  
  Info Lowongan Beasiswa — Authority: 113
  Doctoral Position (Research and Teaching Assistant) Chair of Professor J. Goeree University of Zurich (Switzerland) The candidate is expected to do research during a period of four years leading to a doctoral thesis. In addition, he or she will be involved in teaching activities. A bachelor’s or master’s degree ...
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• SALJ: Breaking the Tie: Evictions from private land, homelessness and a new normality

  
  Abahlali baseMjondolo - Sekwanele! — Authority: 505
  Click here to read this article in pdf. Breaking the Tie: Evictions from private land, homelessness and a new normality by Stuart Wilson INTRODUCTION The ‘normality assumption’ and its endurance It used to be simple. A landowner was in law entitled to an eviction order if he could prove his ownership ...
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