Over at Crosscut Marcie Sillman has an intriguing history of Seattle as a city of innovation. Here is a taste of what she covers: Boeing Nirvana Amazon Microsoft Starbucks Slate Immunex I found the list somewhat sad. For example SEALAND and United Parcel, both of which loom hugely in today̵[...]
Archive for October, 2011
October 13th, 2011 - 9:57 am § in Schools & Colleges
The Business of College Atheletics: Madoff Comes to College Sports
Former Kentucky and current Texas Tech coach Billy Gillispie allegedly had an investment valued at $2.3 million excerpts from Sports Illustrated: More than a dozen current and former college coaches — including Texas Tech’s Billy Gillispie, Arizona’s Lute Olson, Baylor’s Scot[...]
October 13th, 2011 - 9:31 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Tenure
Florida Governor Rick Scott Takes Aim at Tenure Lisa Roney from Academe Blog I am a tenured associate professor at one of the largest (though, let me emphasize, not one of the highest ranked) public universities in the U.S. How can I explain why it is that this often makes me want to cry? Don’t[...]
October 12th, 2011 - 9:39 pm § in Misc.
Hate Speech .. “The Post and Email”
The Post & Email, is a sort of right wing version of the Fox view of Huffington Post,. Where they see the Huff as a site devoted to promoting Communism, Caliphates, and Climatism, , the P&E publishing screeds written by other America haters. The P&E has has recently taken up the caus[...]
October 12th, 2011 - 4:22 pm § in Misc.
Jeffrey Sachs to Speak at Townhall
Jeffrey Sachs: A Plan to Rebuild our Economy and Politics Thursday, October 13, 2011, 7:30 – 9:00pm Daniels Recital Hall (5th & Columbia). $5. Economist Jeffrey Sachs believes America has reached a crucial moment: The complexity of the world economy means the American form of capitalism, wit[...]
October 12th, 2011 - 2:33 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Can the US supply learning to India?
INDIA: Higher education summit with US reveals gaps Alya Mishra The first India-US higher education summit, between India’s Human Resources Minister Kapil Sibal and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week, was aimed at strengthening collaboration between the two countries. It provide[...]
October 12th, 2011 - 11:28 am § in Misc.
Breaking News: Israel, Hamas Both Benefit from Prisoner Swap
from VOA: Some analysts say a factor in the prisoner release deal could be a bid by Hamas to counter the rising popularity of rival Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas after he requested United Nations’ recognition of a Palestinian state last month. The head of Jerusalem’s Palestinian Acade[...]
October 12th, 2011 - 10:31 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
UW AAUP Censors a post about the NIH.
A few days ago I posted a very important issue .. the 50% decline in funding rates at he NIH since the early 2000’s. I discussed why this should be of concern to all of us interested in the University School of Medicine. I also suggested that our federal representatives need to be educated a[...]
October 12th, 2011 - 7:53 am § in Misc.
CHINA: Spin, “Superiority is the not the word we use. The Chinese are very modest.”
Excerpts from an interview with vice minister of foreign affairs, Fu Ying, Der Spiegel aircraft carrier: “this so-called aircraft carrier was really just a framework of a second-hand aircraft carrier that we refitted and will only be used for scientific research and training purposes. ItR[...]
People of color should not vote with everybody else!
Majority-minority? by N in Seattle at HorsesAss has a great post on the effort to increase a “majority minority” Congressional district south of Seattle … you know where all of those black, yellow, brown, people live unless they are Korean, Indian, Lummi, or Chinese. The proponents[...]