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jake-head-shot.jpgJake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine focusing in Neuroscience. He is due to graduate in 2032. He received a BS and a MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University -- where he spent most of his time drinking heavily and building vegetable catapults instead of learning information that would now be eminently useful. When he is not failing terrifically to perform his sworn duties, he enjoys watching bad movies, ethnic food, and running.

Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.

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Posted on: December 11, 2006 10:38 AM, by Jake Young

Here is what I am reading:

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the FDA, the Scientist has a look at its long-term prospects in light of recent scandals.

Best Buy has decided to go to totally flexible scheduling. I feel like business came to the party late on this one. Science had had flex-scheduling forever, and we are doing just fine. All it requires is a little trust and not caring when people get their work done, just that they get it done.

The NYTimes has a interesting article on the diminishing number of cases taken by the Supreme Court and speculation as to why that might be.

Daniel Drezner looks at the likelihood that libertarians will permanently jump ship on the Republicans and go Democratic.

Shelley has the grossest post in the history of Scienceblogs. It shall henceforth be referred to as THE Sperm Cube post.

Scienceblogs welcomes yet another neuroscience blogger, Neurontic. Muhahaha! The neuroscientists will totally rule in the intra-blog kickball match.

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Thanks for the plug Jake!

Posted by: Neurontic | December 12, 2006 10:59 AM

The flex hours require that you have very defined job tasks to be accomplished. I doubt it will work well for all jobs. Many jobs don't have deadlines and are just a steady stream of work. Flex hours could easily allow people to kick the can down the road on much of what they would otherwise accomplish in a 9-5 work day.

Posted by: James | December 12, 2006 6:00 PM

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