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Ralph Asher Alpher - Physics Today December 2007 A very nice obituary (tags: astronomy physics) Chemical & Engineering News - ACS News - Class Of 2006 Salaries And Jobs The overall situation is pretty good, but Ph.D. Salaries dropped somewhat. (tags: chemistry academia news jobs) MIT…
Gesturing helps grade-schoolers solve math problems Hand-waving is the key to any calculation. (tags: academia education math) Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » In Which I Pick Some Nits A historian reads Novik's Temeraire books. (tags: books SF) slacktivist: Gay-Hatin' Gospel (pt. 5) The…
Downloading by Students Overstated :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education The MPAA inflated numbers for student downloading by a factor of three. Gee, and they seemed so honest... (tags: academia movies computing stupid internet) blogs | The A.V. Club Nathan…
Report on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion "In the aggregate, PhDs in the fields represented by the MLA appear to have about a 35% chance of getting tenure." (tags: academia education humanities jobs) Crooked Timber » » Closing the books A list of the arguments Daniel Davies is…