Naomi Klein to Occupy Wall Street: Get Organized By Nick Pinto – October 13th, 2011 Published in The Village Voice. Naomi Klein, the Canadian journalist famous for her anti-corporatist books No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, spoke to the protesters at Occupy Wall Street yesterday evening,[...]
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BREAKING NEWS: Should you shop at Home Depot?
There are signs that Romney’s campaign is in serious trouble. While he is raising money at a good pace, as the single moderate running for the GOP, Mitt Romney is getting very few small donations. Last quarter, Romney had 55,000 individual donors. By contrast Ron Paul has 100,000 [...]
Is the NIH Imploding?
IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. Figures just published on Genomeweb look grim. The good news is that the NIH grant success rate is now 17.4%. The bad news […][...]
October 9th, 2011 - 9:07 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Waiting for Steve (Balmer)
The Coming Battle (based on a piece in the Huff Post) A new survey by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in both China and America, showed that Windows easily outpaced iOS, MIcrosoft has a great opportunity, its own fanbase! John Rose, one of the lead authors of the report, told HuffPost tha[...]
Movie Review: post apocalypse documentary of an American city.
My Cultural Landscape: One of the stranger and more eerily disturbing documentaries seen at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival was Detroit Wild City. Written and directed by Florent Tillon, the film features some wonderful archival footage in addition to battered landscape[...]
September 28th, 2011 - 9:58 am § in America, The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Amazon’s Apple sauce arrives!
UPDATE: I highly recommend Paul Constant’s comments on how the Apple Sauce will affect book stores. I agree with him that they will change. I especially doubt the viability of Barnes and Noble. On the other hand, the Kindle does leave a huge opening in its model for used book stores[...]
What Human Origins Mean to Berkeley
Ardipithecus and the research university Kevin Padian, professor of paleontology and evolutionary biology | 10/10/09 | excerpted from the Berkeley Blog Ardipithecusis the focus of a lot of media attention at the moment. New research discoveries made by the Berkeley faculty seem to make the news co[...]
September 24th, 2011 - 5:11 am § in Science
National Academy Proposes Ways to Save US Research Endeavour
(based on article in The Scientist) A National Academy of Sciences panel, chaired by Chad Holliday, former chief executive of chemical company DuPont and now chairman of the board of Bank of America, is drafting a plan ….. for “significant belt-tightening.” Chad Holliday, told [...]
POLITICS: The Harvard Prof Surges Against the Tea Party Favorite
I am a big fan of the idea that university faculty can and should be politically active. One reason I voted for President Obama was his impressive academic record. Less than a week ago. Harvard Law Profesor Elizabeth Warren launched her campaign for the democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in[...]
BERKELEY BLOG
How to create more jobs by lowering wages: Texas and America Robert Reich, professor of public policy | 9/14/11 Perry and Romney can duke it out over who created the most jobs, but governors have as much influence over job growth in their states as roosters do over sunrises. States don’t have thei[...]