According to a panel of the cream of the U.S. economics profession--Harvard, MIT, Chicago, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley--81% either "Agree" or "Strongly Agree".
According to a panel of the cream of the U.S. economics profession--Harvard, MIT, Chicago, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley--81% either "Agree" or "Strongly Agree".
"Did Giants Strategically Concuss Kyle Williams?" (Two years in the NFL and he's already had four concussions?)
See also the Monopoly Property Value Calculator.
Nobel, Schnoebel--I don't waste my time anymore.
For 150 years, Americans understood perfectly well that pipelines are the rational way to transport oil. We've reached a new and very troubling paralysis if we can't even agree on such an obvious fact at this point.
In addition to the question of how to make the best use of productive resources, another issue that has been raised in the debate is whether projects like the Keystone Expansion Project might also be helpful in terms of putting unemployed Americans back to work. Certainly laying more than a thousand miles of new pipe ought to cover a few paychecks. Critics say that these would only be temporary jobs, lasting only as long as it takes to build the pipeline. That's a valid point. But many of those same critics seem to think that America would be well served by other government-funded, temporary stimulus spending, as a good plan for getting people to work.
Inconvenient Truth #5 Undergraduate Students Are Often Neglected
At schools with lots of graduate students and/or research grants, often the faculty emphasis is not on undergraduate instruction. Big classes taught by inexperienced or marginally qualified individuals are often common, and faculty reward systems strongly favor research over teaching, as often do state appropriations in some settings.
"A Good Fit".
To help you determine if you’re a good faculty fit for a small, formerly-known-as-liberal-arts college, consider the following:
. . .
Do you understand that you will spend more time on service commitments than on prepping for your classes?
Are you willing to serve on multiple committees whose meeting times will add up to as many as eight hours per work -- the equivalent of a full business day?
Are you willing to serve on multiple committees after repeated evidence that there is no such thing as faculty governance?
And why is the universe like a bedsheet that has shrunk in the wash?
I say again: modern physics is weird.
I don't think so, but if it is, I'll send a big bouquet of flowers.
Luckily, I teach at NCSU, where such problems are all but unknown.
:-)
Brian Stoffel, summarizing a recent report from the Boston Consulting Group: "Here's Why American Manufacturing Will Make a Comeback".
I'd say that in about half of my business conversations, I have almost no idea what other people are saying to me. The language of internet business models has made the problem even worse. When I was younger, if I didn't understand what people were saying, I thought I was stupid. Now I realize that if it's to people's benefit that I understand them but I don't, then they're the ones who are stupid.
Read the whole thing.
Sanetti [CEO of the NSSF, a "trade group that represents about 7,000 firearms manufacturers and related companies"] explained that in 1959 some 70 percent of the American public favored handgun bans, whereas today that number has flipped. “We’ve been able to conclusively prove scientifically that, as John Lott wrote, more guns do equal less crime. Other factors include the fact that the number of hunters has actually risen in a number of states. Then you have returning servicemen and women who are staying with the shooting sports. Meanwhile, the advocacy of the NSSF, the NRA and other groups have shown that the Second Amendment is a fundamental part of our freedom.”
(Well, at least from 1990 to 2001. Somebody needs to update this.)
It’s a no-pissing contest.
Parents at a Brooklyn elementary school are hopping mad after staffers set bladder-bursting limits on fifth-graders’ potty privileges — even going so far as to offer prizes to students who go to the can the least.
With the apparent OK of her principal, PS 90 teacher Stephanie Warner began restricting kids earlier this month to just three toilet trips per week in an attempt to reduce classroom disruptions.
The teacher set three, short “windows of opportunity” when kids could take leave for the loo and distributed strips that resemble award ribbons reading “This coupon entitles [student name] to bathroom.”
These days, defenders of Head Start say less about what it does for kids (essentially nothing) but about the jobs it creates in poor neighborhoods. This is blue liberal thinking at its most self-parodic: we can’t develop social programs that will accomplish something worthwhile, but we can at least use the illusion that such programs work to create jobs for people who will then vote for the politicians who give them make work jobs. . . .
It isn’t the just the Tea Party and Ayn Rand acolytes saying these things. It’s President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services. It’s Time magazine.
A paradigm is falling apart.