Funny Dilbert cartoon today. Wally is talking to a younger employee, who appears very distressed. In the first panel: Wally says “Rogue nations are building nuclear weapons. The polar ice caps are melting. Unemployment is high.” In the second panel Wally says “Entire nations are on the brink of default. You aren’t [...]
Tag Archives | education
Spengler on schools
To continue my series of posts on what ails us as a nation–first food production and consumption, then the prison industrial complex–here’s a third critique, this time from the conservative Spengler, AKA David Goldman, who writes a column for Asia Times, and in fact is probably its biggest draw: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NA31Dj01.html I keep up with Spengler, [...]
Mitt Romney versus our children
As the father to a toddler, I’ve newly rediscovered Sesame Street. It’s nice to have a plausibly educational TV show that isn’t interrupted every three minutes by ads screaming at my daughter to gorge herself on sugary snack foods. It’s great to have a little entertainment that doesn’t constantly encourage her to demand the latest [...]
What should the brightest do?
Since education is usually such a popular topic amongst this group I thought I would offer up the following excerpts from a piece in the 11 28 edition of The New Yorker by George Packer on Peter Thiel, a young investor who is keen on technological innovation. Thiel believes that education is the next bubble [...]
Public Misperceptions About Climate Change
Interesting article from the Science Daily website: Public Misperception About Scientific Agreement On Global Warming Undermines Climate Policy Support ScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2011) — People who believe there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about global warming tend to be less certain that global warming is happening and less supportive of climate policy, [...]
Education, Cognitive Skills, and Long-Run Economic Growth
Education and Economic Growth It’s not just going to school, but learning something while there that matters By Eric A. Hanushek, Dean T. Jamison, Eliot A. Jamison and Ludger Woessmann 3 Comments | Print | PDF | Share Spring 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 2 Even before and certainly ever since the 1983 release of [...]
Saving for College
My wife came from money and so graduated college with no student loans. My parents, on the other hand, earned just enough for me not to qualify for any signficant needs-based grants, and not enough to provide significant help with the bills. So, by the time I graduated law school, in 1998, I had over $120,000 [...]
The U.S. is losing 40% of STEM majors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-science-majors-change-their-mind-its-just-so-darn-hard.html?_r=1&hp This article points out how 40% of STEM majors change their major before they get a degree. It says that the problem is more severe in the best schools. While that may make it sound like the curriculums are simply harder in the best schools my guess is that has more to do with how we set students [...]
Student Loan Debt
I wanted to remark on ERhoades’ comment regarding student loan debt. This comment was apparently published as a response to Arkady’s post on Wiping Out Consumer Debt, but for some strange reason I cannot find it there. I can only find it by clicking on comments. So if I wanted to make a reply to [...]
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APM’s Marketplace
- From little white to blatant: Lies are lies
- Nick Hanauer on the TED talk, income inequality controversy
- Hewlett-Packard reportedly will lay off 30,000
- GM passes on Super Bowl advertising
- Letters: Brogrammers and older workers
- Walmart expands its bribery investigation
- Weekly Wrap: What happened to Facebook's stock?
- Obama to announce food initiative for world poor
- Silicon Valley's new underground millionaires
- 'Supercommuters' board airplanes to get to work
Science.
- Report using private health claims data shows prices are driving health spending growth
- Folic acid may reduce some childhood cancers
- AAPS National Biotechnology Conference to highlight innovative vaccines
- Study says children exposed to tobacco smoke face long-term respiratory problems
- Statins prevent cancer in heart transplant recipients
- Good news for nanomedicine: Quantum dots appear safe in pioneering study on primates
Scientific American
- Stuxnet-Like Viruses Remain a Top U.S. Security Risk
- Unhurtful Thoughts: A Preoccupied Brain Produces Pain-Killing Compounds
- Coyotes Are the New Top Dogs
- Self-Worth Shattering: A Single Bomb Blast Can Saddle Soldiers with Debilitating Brain Trauma
- Track Record: Do Major Urban Subway Networks Evolve along Similar Patterns?
- Not-So-Quick Fix: ADHD Behavioral Therapy May Be More Effective Than Drugs in Long Run
- In Search of the Best (Energy) Ideas: A Q&A with ARPA-E's Arun Majumdar
- Ancient Time: Earliest Mayan Astronomical Calendar Unearthed in Guatemala Ruins
- Climate Forecasting: A Break in the Clouds
- Hive and Seek: Domestic Honeybees Keep Disappearing, but Are Their Wild Cousins in Trouble, Too? [Slide Show]
The New Yorker
- Peter Hessler: My life in British police lineups.
- Xan Rice: Runner Samuel Wanjiru’s tragic death.
- Richard Avedon: “Allen Ginsberg’s Family.”
- Jeffrey Toobin: How John Roberts orchestrated Citizens United.
- Alec Wilkinson: Can John Douglas Thompson act in Shakespeare’s comedies?
- David Owen: Daniel Nocera’s artificial leaf.
- Larissa MacFarquhar: Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation.
- Michael Specter: Can geoengineering solve global warming?
- Evan Osnos: Gong Haiyan, Jiayuan, and dating in China.
- Andrea K. Scott: Sarah Sze’s sculpture from everyday objects.
NYT global headlines.
- Robin Gibb, Member of the Bee Gees, Dies at 62
- Nationalist Wins Serbian Presidency
- Greek Crisis Poses Hard Choices for Western Leaders
- Supply Lines Cast Shadow at NATO Meeting on Afghan War
- Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Lockerbie Bomber, Dies at 60
- Hamas and Fatah Agree in Cairo to Begin Work on Elections
Spiegel
- Taliban Death Threats: The West's Afghan Workers Fear NATO Withdrawal
- 'Lost Nation': US Think Tank Slams Germany's NATO Role
- Unreliable Partners?: Germany's Reputation in NATO Has Hit Rock Bottom
- US Nuclear Weapons Upgrades: Experts Report Massive Cost Increase
- Disses and Death Threats: Rapper in Germany Fears for Life after Fatwa
- Profiting from Power?: The Dubious Business of the Yanukovych Clan
- A Global Petition to Asma Al-Assad: Being a Bystander Is a Choice
- Champagne Before the Crash: Pilot Bravado May Be to Blame for Superjet Disaster
- Interview with Greenpeace Head Kumi Naidoo: 'We Are Losing the Planet'
- Disaster in the Sahel: Fighting in Mali Adds Chaos to Troubled African Region
Reuters politics
- Pro-Romney Super PAC sees fundraising dip in April
- NATO seeks unity on Afghan war despite French exit plan
- U.S. banking laws unable to stop JPMorgan loss: Republican Boehner
- Obama pledges tough enforcement of Wall Street reforms
- At ''bridge to nowhere,'' Romney slams Obama on economy
- House Republicans top Democrats in April fundraising
FED research papers.
- 2012-35: Using the "Chandrasekhar Recursions" for Likelihood Evaluation of DSGE Models
- 2012-34: Time-to-Plan Lags for Commercial Construction Projects
- 2012-25: The Government-Sponsored Enterprises and the Mortgage Crisis: The Role of the Affordable Housing Goals
- 2012-23: International Policy Spillovers at the Zero Lower Bound
- 2012-21: Arbitrage, liquidity and exit: The repo and federal funds markets before, during, and emerging from the financial crisis
- 2012-24: Changes in Bank Lending Standards and the Macroeconomy
