Horrible College Fashion: Both Professors And Students
I told the kid about to take exam that if he could write an essay successfully justifying why he chose to wear his unusual hat and kept it on indoors,…
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Too Many Kids Go To College: A Second Conversation With Myself
Read the first conversation here. William How goes the teaching? Matt Do you really want to know? You might not like the answer. William You're going to start this conversation…
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Lying For A Living: Tiny Airline Seats
Cowboys on airplanes No doubt channeling Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood, the Italian design firm Aviointeriors Group has created a new airline seat dubbed the "saddle." Ride them skies! What…
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How eBooks Will Lead To The Disappearance of Books
Thanks to reader and contributer Ari Schwartz for suggesting this topic. We have already discussed how eBooks will hasten the end of what we called long-form reading, i.e. book reading,…
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University Rankings: Wall Street Journal, ACTA, QS
I, working with Cambria Consulting (see below), was involved heavily creating the WSJ's Top 25 College rankings which are in today's papers. All questions on the methods, I defer to…
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Global Competitiveness Report: World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum has released their 2010-2011 rankings of Global Competitiveness, a subject matter so important that it rates Capital Letters to introduce. For each country, the economists from…
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Solar Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections, And Evil Alien Conquerors
NASA, when it can spare time from its outreaching to the Muslims of the world, manages to fit in a little science. Like from its nearly spanking new Solar Dynamics…
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Florida Pastor Won’t Burn Quran: Prediction—Late Posting!
I wrote this Wednesday night, and only learned of Jones's reversal early Friday morning. Since it is now too late to write anything new, I give you my prediction, which…