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| | www.sam-rodriques.com
| | If you are like most people, you probably think of academia as the engine of scientific discovery. You probably think of MIT, for example, as one of the centers of the world for new inventions and discoveries. And yet, if you have spent a lot of time in academic environments, you know the story is a little bit more complicated. Academia has a lot of weird flaws and hangups which I and others have written about before. I have now spent just under 5 years as a PhD student, and just over 2 years as
| | stevendkrause.com
| | This morning, I read a discussion between Kevin Carey and Doug Dempster in Inside Higher Ed, "Debating the Value of Arts (and Other) Degree Programs."Carey is a journalist/writer speci...
| | njwildberger.com
| This semester I have been on Long Service Leave, so I am off the hook for teaching, and can spend more time with my graduate students Ali Alkhaldi and Nguyen Le, do some investigations into hyperbolic geometry and related issues, make more videos, and do some travelling. Ali is in his fourth year of the...