As promised (threatened?) in the previous post, here’s a space for more general commentary in response to the question asked by our Corporate Masters, and modified slightly for blog use: What non-scientific developments do you fear you’ll be blogging or reading about in 2008? Consider this open to all areas of politics and pop culture. […]
Month: January 2008
Dorky Poll: Scientific Fears
The questions posed in yesterday’s posts about hopes for 2008 were half of what we were asked by the Powers That Be. The other half: What scientific development do you fear you’ll be blogging or reading about in 2008? As with yesterday’s posts, the original question was more general, but I restricted my answer (below […]
links for 2008-01-25
Endowment Spending Rate Drops Slightly :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education “Colleges with endowments larger than $500 million spent on average only 4.4 percent in 2007. For colleges with endowments greater than $500 million but less than $1 billion, that’s the lowest rate since 1999, and for […]
Non-Dorky Poll: General Hopes
As promised (threatened?) in the previous post, here’s a space for more general commentary in response to the question asked by our Corporate Masters, and modified slightly for blog use: What non-scientific developments do you hope to be blogging or reading about in 2008? Consider this open to all areas of politics and pop culture. […]
Dorky Poll: Scientific Hopes
A little while ago, the Corporate Masters asked us to answer a couple of questions for possible inclusion in the first ’08 issue of Seed. I originally posted this back in November, but got asked to take it down because the issue was hush-hush. The street date for the magazine in question was this week, […]
links for 2008-01-24
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 Rabin’s Year of Flops (tags: blogs movies […]
Dorky Poll: Seminars from Hell
Over at Biocurious, Phillip has a post on the generic science seminar outline: 1. Introduction of Esteemed Speaker by Local Professor with the largest overlap in research interests. Enumeration of every award Esteemed Speaker has ever garnered is standard issue, and if Local Professor and Esteemed Speaker know each other, humorous story from “well, not […]
What Employers Want
I haven’t linked to Inside Higher Ed in a few days, but lest you think I’ve forgotten them, they have a short piece today about the results of a survey of employers “with at least 25 employees and significant hiring of recent college graduates,” regarding the preparation of their recent hires. It turns out that […]
Peer-Reviewed Blogging
Some time back, Dave Munger and someother folks put together a site called BPR3.org designed to aggregate posts that discuss peer-reviewed research papers in detail. A major weakness of this was that it’s sort of difficult to remember what the acronym stands for (every time I try to figure it out, I come up one […]
links for 2008-01-23
In the Fatosphere, Big Is in, or at Least Accepted – New York Times Tune in to the denialism blog for an explosion in 5… 4… 3… (tags: medicine food society blogs) Flagging economy needs science investments The head of Intel blasts Congress over the science funding debacle. (tags: education science economics politics) This Week […]