Education Around the Blogosphere
Yesterday was pretty cool because two bloggers I really respect took up some themes I introduced on this blog. Zenpundit has an excellent article, “A Convo on Monopolies and Public Education,” in...
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Some Thoughts on Being a Professional
Catholicgauze has an awesome post about geo-literacy. He references several careers for the geo-literate, that is, geographers, including: Real estate analyst Market Research Political Consultancy...
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http://t.co/aoh5clfi to twitter test # lol @DianeRavitch's twitter account is now private. She realizes she's a laughing stock. # @zenpundit , @DianeRavitch's tweet attacked TFA for increasing access...
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@jaheppler Over the last seven days, my #lastfm tops are Mumford & Sons, Lil’ Wayne, and Message to Bears in reply to jaheppler # Bill Callahan is the o-line coach for the Cowboys? #bearsWin #mnf...
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@Aelkus Qing dynasty kidnapped Sun Yatsen in London. Perhaps Ming dynasty? in reply to Aelkus # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Mike Tanji and Cybersecurity
Long time tdaxp blog friend Mike Tanji, of Haft of the Spear, has a quote prominently featured in my employer’s “year in review” video: Congrats Mike!
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New Blog Recommendation You read tdaxp, so you’re smart. That’s self-serving flattery, but not untrue. If you’re reading this post, you like intelligent, thought-provoking, and unexpectedly combative...
View ArticleStereotyping, and Rare but Important Events
Phil Arena has an interesting but problematic piece up at Duck of Minerva, entitled “Bayes, Stereotyping, and Rare Events.” The substantive topic of the post is a recent survey of Muslims that I’m not...
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What should a Political Science PhD student do? Should she blog?
tdaxp’s Note: Once in a while I use the platform of this blog to give personal advise. Recently a blogger, who also comments at Duck of Minerva, asked if blogging was a sensible choice in today’s...
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No Freedom in the Ghetto
The academic ghetto (composed of the humanities, International Relations, sociology, and so on) is a place of low-employment and low-wages. There are four types of people in the academic ghetto: Pimps...
View ArticleIn Net-Centric Politics, The Net-Centric Politicians Ru[i]n the Party
“Internet and the Democrats,” by Jon Schaff, South Dakota Politics, 20 July 2005, http://southdakotapolitics.blogs.com/south_dakota_politics/2005/week29/index.html#a0005664380. Schaff of SDP notes that...
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Mark C Chu-Carroll, a doctor of computer science, a Google engineer, and a blogger, lost his father this weekend: My father died on sunday. To some degree, I’m still in shock. Even though we knew it...
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Exodus to the Promised Land
As we walk from Egypt, the Land of Sin, to the Promised Land, to what or whom should we look? We’ll undoubtedly be in the Wilderness at the time. Should we gaze at Moses, the son of Miriam? The Pillar...
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