Racial discrimination in our institution is covered by a thick layer of symbols, declarations, and committees that despite our discourse keep the skeletons in a tightly locked closet. In 2000, with the change of chair in my dept –and dean of our engineering college—after more than 25 years of [...]
Archive for August 26th, 2011
August 26th, 2011 - 11:04 am § in Science
BREAKING NEWS: A New Journal!
The HHMI/Wellcome/MPI super journal and the triumph of open access By Michael Eisen from Its Not Junk On Monday the world’s three most prominent private funders of scientific research – the US’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the UK’s Wellcome Trust and Germany’s Max Planck Society – a[...]
August 26th, 2011 - 8:28 am § in Misc.
The Looney Reigns Supreme
$1 USD = 95¢ Canadian? Take Off, Eh? New proposed border currency As Tacky Shoppers Wearing Tuques Make Cross-Border Shopping Raids, The Canadian Prime Minister Declares USA, “Our Bitch.” Seattle-The Canadian dollars used to be the joke of world currencies, falling somewhere between the[...]