tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1249150 2009-12-23T20:08:34-05:00 Aurelie Thiele on current affairs. TypePad ATOBEhttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a777fa41970b 2009-12-23T20:08:34-05:00 2009-12-24T04:37:24-05:00

I recently finished reading "Into Thin Air," by Jon Krakauer - a best-selling eyewitness account of the 1996 Everest tragedy, where eight climbers were killed and many others were stranded near the top of Everest during a storm in May 1996. I decided to write a post on the book...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20128763f08b9970c 2009-12-10T00:05:46-05:00 2009-12-10T00:05:46-05:00

Every year I give a book recommendation for Christmas; in 2007, I picked "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin and in 2008 I chose "The Rise of The Creative Class" by Richard Florida. This year I did not want to...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a73c092e970b 2009-12-09T23:20:42-05:00 2009-12-09T23:20:42-05:00

Here are a couple of Lehigh-related links I've saved over the past few months and didn't get the chance to write a post on: "Lehigh recognized as one of nation's top universities": Lehigh press release dated August 20, 2009 about being ranked 35th in the 2010 US News Rankings of...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a72c5321970b 2009-12-08T07:14:00-05:00 2009-12-08T07:14:00-05:00

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt recently wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, which was published last week ("How Google Can Help Newspapers," December 1, 2009, with the subtitle: "Video didn't kill the radio star, and the Internet won't destroy news organizations. It will foster a new, digital business model.")...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e201287601de8f970c 2009-12-02T16:54:09-05:00 2009-12-02T16:53:31-05:00

The October 26 issue of Newsweek had an article by Lamar Alexander (former US education secretary under President George H.W. Bush, president of the University of Tennessee, and governor of Tennessee, and now US Senator) on "The Three-Year Solution," where he asserts that helping students get their degree in three...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a6e35e75970b 2009-11-27T18:52:37-05:00 2009-11-27T18:52:37-05:00

Management pundit Peter Drucker - often called "the father of modern management" - would have turned 100 this month, which has led to a week-long celebration at the two schools that bear his name, a self-help book aiming to explain how "Peter Drucker's wisdom can inspire and transform your life",...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e2012875bcfd10970c 2009-11-20T10:16:15-05:00 2009-11-20T10:16:15-05:00

I found an interesting post about the Physics GRE exam on the Cosmic Variance blog of Discover Magazine, written by someone on the committee that prepares the questions. (The GRE [Graduate Record Examination] is an exam that students applying to graduate school have to take, a bit like the GMAT...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a6649d23970b 2009-11-09T01:32:03-05:00 2009-11-09T01:32:03-05:00

I recently finished reading "Hollowing out the middle: The rural brain drain and what it means for America" by Patrick Carr and Maria Kefalas. It is a thin book (172 pages without counting the lengthy notes and references at the end) which raises as many questions as it answers, but...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a65350f3970b 2009-11-04T12:51:30-05:00 2009-11-04T12:51:30-05:00

PhD Comics usually makes me laugh, but the latest strips struck a darker note. They are apparently based on the author's real-life experience at the detention facility at Heathrow Airport. Please read for yourself: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Thankfully, the story has a happy ending. For a...

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