A few weeks ago I asked, in regards to US concerns about the offshoring of high-tech jobs, just how many American’s were doing these jobs to begin with? Well, today I found an answer of sorts: Noting that roughly 50 percent of all engineering, math and science degrees awarded by U.S. universities now go to [...]
Michael Newdow is a hero in the Jimmy Stewart Mr. Smith goes to Washington kind of way. Here is Dahlia Lithwick on his presentation before the Supreme Court: Breyer says that the pledge serves the purpose of unification at the price of offending only a few. Newdow says that “for 62 years [before it was [...]
It is possible to finish your dissertation and blog at the same time!!! Even more evidence of this in the comments over at Crooked Timber. Very encouraging news. Actually, I think the blogging actually helps. For one thing, I think writing a little bit every day helps my writing. For another, it keeps me from [...]
Bloglet was down all week. E-mail subscribers to this list may wish to look on the web site to see what they missed. It seems to be working again now, but I’m testing out a replacement for bloglet. If it works well I’ll switch everyone over in a week or so. Stay tuned…
Of the last four presidential elections won by the Republican candidate, the two closest ones (in 1980 and 2000) would have gone to the Democrat had lower-income people voted in the same percentages as higher-income groups. So suggests an analysis of data from the General Social Survey, a personal interview survey of a representative sample [...]
Heijin literally means “black gold” and is a Chinese term for corruption. It is also what I would have called a blog devoted to Taiwanese politics. Scott Sommers, who actually has a new blog on Taiwanese politics has decided to call his new blog “Politics in Taiwan.” Anyone who wants to understand what’s going on [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by the relationship between text and image. I even taught a course about it (PDF download) a few years ago. Many artists have achieved striking results by juxtaposing one with the other in ways that mimic advertising or propaganda; most notably, Barbara Kruger. But, thanks to a post over at locussolus [...]
Wohohoho, it’s real, shame and scandal in the family Wohohoho, it’s real, shame and scandal in the family (Link via Cursor.org, lyrics from Peter Tosh.)
I’ve been very happy with my Amazon RSS Feed Generator. It has alerted me to quite a few new books coming out on topics that I’m interested in. The only frustrating thing is that many of them are not yet in print, so I have to wait! Now I just discovered a site that does [...]
The BBC reports that the Taiwanese president suffered a defeat because the referendum failed to go through: Despite the president’s election victory, he is being seen as having suffered a significant defeat with the failure of a referendum on relations with China after too few voters participated to make the result valid. But this overlooks [...]