Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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I do not know how Michael Leddy finds so many great items for his Orange Crate Art blog. I was struck by his link to this column by The Providence Journal's Mark Pantinkin on certain specialized life skills we (of a certain generation) accrued growing ...
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
"A comparison of the 2008 population — using data from a variety of sources — with the first census in 1881 shows that the number of Cocks has shrunk by 75 per cent..." Read the rest for the context.
How to e-mail a professor. They may not notice, but then again, ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
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Doomsday for 2009 is ... Saturday.
Mary Ellen Bates says goodbye to several Google apps, and ponders Microsoft's persistent relevance. I'll miss Google Notebook, myself.
Better ways to run a workshop. And some damn fine YouTube examples of Patrick McGoohan at work.
Chris Blattman summarizes Rapture indicators from ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
This paper studies the CVs of assistant professors of economics at several American universities and finds "evidence of a strong brain drain" and a "predominance of empirical work." If you searched the CVs of assistant professors at top-10 IS/LS schools, what do you think you'd find? [via Marginal Revolution]
Michael Leddy ...
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