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Hope in a box: The A.V. Club's guide to holiday gifts for the new era of good feelings | The A.V. Club "Words like "need" or "necessary" lose all meaning around Christmas, even when the economy is collapsing. For example, does anyone actually need a flexible plastic case to prevent their bananas…
The Art of SATergy - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com "Consider the following question for the GMAT (the test given to MBA applicants). Unfortunately, issues of copyright clearance have prevented us from reproducing the question, but that shouldn't stop us. " (tags: science education academia…
slacktivist: Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? "Part of the answer to that question is that our newspapers are being asked to do something they were never designed to do and something they are fundamentally and structurally incapable of doing: they're being asked to provide…
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…

I like the (obscure) joke of name Pennsylvania the Netherlands....

By Brad Holden (not verified) on 18 Jan 2008 #permalink