@September_Blue If one can't exercise the main perk of academia, ie the right to invent new words, then I'm quitting the ivory tower ;-)

Michael Sandel’s Justice
To nobody’s surprise, universities are increasingly putting some effort into putting high-quality course lectures on the Web. (Where this ultimately will lead isn’t completely clear.) We’ve already mentioned Leonard Susskind’s lectures on GR at...

@whitespider1066 I said degrees matter LESS. At the very top of any field, people distinguish themselves outside of academia IMHO.

Of Geeks and Girls
"Professor Sapna Cheryan led her student into a small classroom in Stanford University's computer science building. Star Wars posters adorned the walls, discarded computer parts and cans of Coke clustered on a table, and a life-size bust of...

Candid Engineer in Academia: Science Diet http://bit.ly/7ldmG4

Taken for Granted: Shocked, Shocked! to Find Disappointment on Campus - Science Careers - Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Faculty, Postdoc jobs on Science Careers
But as the great majority of faculty members learn--quickly or slowly depending on where they end up--the opportunity to do important science and gain major recognition only ever exists for a relative few--overwhelmingly those educated and employed at...

Women researchers less likely to receive major career funding grants, U-M study shows
"The study looked at 2,783 researchers who received the highly competitive early career awards called K08 or K23.... The researchers then matched the K award recipients to those who were awarded an R01, a prestigious federal grant that is a...

@whitsundays I did the same thing in 82 due to the terrible recession! Then back to school, a short stint in academia, then back into biz!

We used to hold these truths to be self-evident...
(Tim, w/thanks to David W.) Breathlessly, the BBC reports our latest neuroscience findings. (By the way, keep track of that whole neuro thing. It's hot and will soon explain everything as a simple question of brain waves. Including...

College's too-fat-to-graduate rule under fire - CNN.com
SR: It's updated language, but lots of schools have fitness requirements that can be tested out of. UCHICAGO has a swimming requirement for example

#design inspiration Essay Academia http://bit.ly/92w8zx

The Millennial Muddle: How Stereotyping Students Became an Industry - Student Affairs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Figuring out young people has always been a chore, but today it's also an industry. Colleges and corporations pay experts big bucks to help them understand the fresh-faced hordes that pack the nation's dorms and office buildings. As in any...

Wendy Doniger is a Syndrome
IntroductionWendy Doniger has bestowed a rather flippant interview in Outlook India on the eve of the release of her new book, The Hindus: An Alternative History. The title is sufficiently pompous, entirely faithful to Wendy Doniger’s career as an...

Make More Than GPA
25% Drop in free playtime for 6-to-8-year-olds from 1981 to ‘97, while homework more than doubled.  Time 30Nov, p.57.My youngest son is a junior in high school, but won’t study for the SAT because he is too busy with classes; he won’t believe me...

The challenges of social media: Rewriting research http://bit.ly/7My6mK - state of social media in academia. don't miss the sidebar links

http://www.confsearch.org/confsearch/ Computer Science Conference Search #academia #conferences

RT @luizbento: "We're Academia! Nobody tell us what to do!" http://bit.ly/7Yr94N

Compacto.Rec e a rede musical dos coletivos
.Como bem disse o Leonardo na última postagem, houve uma crescente organização dos coletivos culturais nos últimos anos. No fim do mesmo ano de surgimento do Macondo Lugar, em 2005, inicia-se a organização do Circuito Fora do Eixo (CFE) uma rede...

Remapping Geography
"Progressive thought is a form of thought, and every university should be able to exhibit a few true believers. But the same can be said of other forms of thought, other beliefs. Shouldn’t every university, every field in the human and social...