Four Science Leaders Speak Out on How US Biomedical Research Can Survive Hard Times; “Rescuing U.S. Biomedical Research From Its Systemic Flaws” A recent article by Sam Stein on Huff Post sums it up pretty well, the US is suffering from a brain drain. Where once the best came here and becam[...]
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January 1st, 2014 - 2:49 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
New Idea for a New Year …. Husky U!
Lets Build Husky U in 2014 .. We Already Have The Stadium! In 2012 we ran a post about better ways to fund the UW. Joy the world … the UW’s new 1/4 billion dollar football stadium (added to the 1 billion Seattle spent for Seahawks Stadium) may show us the way! Husky fans claim that [...]
October 5th, 2013 - 12:17 pm § in Misc.
ETHNIC PRIDE
Four Indian Americans win top science and maths awards From Jamie Williamson ‘s site on Sat, 07/27/2013 – 05:04 Washington, July 27 – Four Indian American professors are among the 13 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists who have won 2013 Simons[...]
September 16th, 2013 - 2:39 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Gates Foundations Spends 5 billion on redesign of higher education
The low-cost, self-paced education lacks courses and traditional professors. Instead, students progress by showing mastery of 120 “competencies,” such as “can use logic, reasoning, and analysis to address a business problem.” http://chronicle.com/article/The-Gates-Effect/1403[...]
A Message from Einstein For My Brother:
Are you a Jew? Hugh, You wrote a pretty nasty email about Jewish atheists. You were especially mean spirited by attacking my role when Havi and Hillel, my own children, were first called to read the Jewish law, the Torah,. Your daughter will, as I understand, do the same thing next month.�[...]
The Republicans are preparing to declare war … not on Syria or Iran, but on Science,
Republicans Challenge Peer Review Chairman of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee Lamar Smith (R-Texas)(Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) The Scientific American reports that Lamar Smith and his Republican colleagues on the House committee that oversees the NSF have authored The High Qualit[...]
December 20th, 2012 - 11:40 am § in Misc.
UW in top 25 … for academic standing of atheletic program!
Go Huskeys? The UW Athletic Program ranked # 11 in academic success of our athletes …. Pretty good! … Harvard only ranked 114! Stanford, UNC, Georgetown,Notre Dame, Penn State, UCLA, Michigan, Oregon, and Princeton* beat us. We easily beat the Air Force Academy and USC at 73 and 23[...]
Why do we still have a university press in an internet age?
The Gamble The answer may come from Princeton. The Princeton University Press cannot give away the ending of its forthcoming book, The Gamble,on the 2012 presidential election. But it does plan to give away the beginning. Read more[...]
November 5th, 2012 - 7:21 am § in Misc.
How many racist votes go to Mitt?
Romney’s silence speaks loudly. SHELL Station, Tampa Fla. While all the models suggest a narrow victory by Mr. Obama, I worry that models … whether Nate Silver‘s model, Darryl’s model, or the Princeton model, do not account for racism. How many independents still see Barack H[...]
Balmer Blues: Retirement
Steve Balmer has been fired! The media are being very polite about this but the message is clear … Balmer is leaving because of a failure to lead. He may be a wonderful business man .. probably would be good as the boss at IBM, Oracle, or SAP… but Microsoft is in competition with A[...]