I love…

…Time Warner, for giving me the best cable internet service in the world. My internet connection has been down again, for the past week. The reason that was given was that the cable traffic, much less the real traffic, was too much due to the U.N. General Assembly annual meeting. That sounds absurd. In any [...]

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HIV/AIDS updates

Some points of interest taken off the daily HIV/AIDS report from Kaisernetwork.org:
As has been well publicized in various outlets, the Merck Corporation called off its AIDS vaccine trials - a major disappointment to AIDS prevention efforts. The vaccine trials were found to be ineffective in preventing HIV infection or preventing the progression of HIV infection [...]

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Thoughts on admission: Contest mobility and its prospects

Note: this post was prompted in part by a post by Matthew Tabor on a similar topic. While my own concerns are pointed in a somewhat different direction and reflect a somewhat different perspective, anyone interested in the problem of ‘credentialism’ and competition might take a look at Matthew’s site for his discussion as well.
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Global Warming 4: The Future, in our Hands?

The President of Iran is due to speak later this afternoon at Columbia University, just a few blocks away from where I study and work. I’ll have to keep this in mind and take an alternate route to campus for class tomorrow afternoon, in order to avoid the usual subway delays. On the one hand, [...]

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Norms of the Academic Blogosphere (recovered, kind of)

Oh crap.
I spent a good chunk of the afternoon writing about the debate that has been going over at Orgtheory.net that arose in response to a recent post entitled ‘Assumptions.’ Then, this evening, I decided to clean up and delete a couple of draft posts, including a version of the final post which I entitled [...]

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