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.
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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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I keep wondering how can there be such a mixture of (not always) good (sometimes excellent!) economic policies (far better than most ‘opposition’ in the USA advocate- and that’s one problem there: the alternative might be worse, in overall terms), but absolutely insane ‘political’ ones (eventually leading to bad economic outcomes as well…), interfering with private life/ choice and meant to control, there is this obsession with controlling each and everybody’s activities, thoughts etc.,
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Since our Romanian mass-media (well, the ‘education’ department from Gandul) are launching a great moral offensive against nudity (public or academic nudity, to be exact), here’s some interesting material on nudity and (great) inspiration.
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Informatie de pe Ad Astra. Daca juriul va fi intr-adevar corect (ma intreb cum va fi ales juriul in Iasi, Cluj si Bucuresti si chiar ma gandesc ca Ad Astra ar trebui sa fie implicata cel putin in selectarea “personalitatilor stiintifice” din juriu), competitia aceasta se anunta excelenta.
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