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Quite an interesting article in last week’s print edition of The Economist about divorce as a business. Essence: it really matters where the divorce is pronounced (tip: don’t choose England if you’re the rich(er) spouse…).
Category: academia
Despre colocviul stiintific de la Copenhaga, de sambata trecuta
Evenimentul a fost mai mult decat reusit pentru o prima editie si constituie un precedent care nu trebuie ignorat. Deci chapeau organizatorilor, participantilor, audientei! O scurta trecere in revista, in fuga (si las programul sa vorbeasca de la sine, mai jos): ideea colocviului s-a materializat (intr-un final!)
→ Read more Academic tenure: to be or not to be?
Excellent post of Steven Levitt on whether giving tenure in the academic environment (in Economics, in particular) makes any sense. Of course- and Levitt should know that, but maybe he doesn’t, since he does not say anything about it- both Richard Posner and Gary Becker extensively talked about this (and about tenure in general, though they did focus on the academic and judicial settings) on their common blog, more than a year ago (they also came back on the topic with answers to comments received on the initial posts, see Posner’s reply to comments and Becker’s reply to comments, respectively).
→ Read more Mankiw’s advice for new junior faculty
Plenty of good advice from Greg Mankiw for new junior faculty. Though I might have a problem with his one-before-the-last piece: “Avoid activities that will distract you from research.
→ Read more On Larry Page’s address at the AAAS Annual Meeting 2007 and more from that event
Excerpts from Larry Page’s address at the AAAS Annual Meeting of this year are in the third part of this recent Science podcast (in .mp3 format) from the 17th of February (his talk starts from around min 14 in the podcast).
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