Tag: education

March 1, 2014 0

Thanks a lot, Khruschev

By News Desk

Tweet The news from Crimea is unsettling , partly because it’s not entirely clear to me whether it’s bad to have Crimea reattached to Russia in some form. From a utilitarian perspective, removing the most eastern-oriented portion of Ukraine from its electoral politics would pretty much guarantee a western-oriented political outcome.

February 23, 2014 0

Interlude

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.

February 23, 2014 0

Blegging re human ability to taste the change in ocean acidity

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

February 18, 2014 0

As good as it gets: patriarchy and Mitt

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Tweet Taking the sympathetic documentary Mitt at face value, it shows a patriarchal culture at its very best. The women in these men’s lives are loved and respected, and their counsel taken as seriously as the men’s, but they’re not the deciders.