Public intellectuals are successful suppliers of commentary in the attention market for serious thought. Blogs are a relatively new technology that substantially alters this market. More people can now nurse aspirations to be public intellectuals, but...
Topics: Blogging, Politics, Sociology

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Let me start with an apology. In my previous post on a scamference, I was being needlessly offensive towards the victims of that hoax. What I said about the participants was in poor taste. I was wrong, and I apologize. * * * A quick update about the...
Topics: Conference, Hoax

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Before I get to that question, let me first link to this post by Rahul Siddharthan, who has linked to Ayyadurai's website . Here's an excerpt from near the end of his post: ... [M]aybe he was already told not to expect to be hired in a permanent.
Topics: Controversy, People, Research Labs

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Jorge Heine in The Hindu : A Nobel Prize for Political Science . Trey Popp in The Penn Gazette : Are Better Brains Better? Cory Doctorow reviews "Love of Shopping" is Not a Gene: Problems With Darwinian Psychology David Dobbs in The...
Topics: Books, Politics, Psychology, Sociology

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Ankita Gupta of Mint has the scoop . Here's a basic outline of the plot: Ayyadurai, a 45 year-old NRI scientist / technocrat, was parachuted into the CSIR system at a plum salary (by Indian public sector standards -- Band Pay of Rs. 60,000 + Grade.
Topics: Controversy

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