Archive for June 28th, 2007
No, But This Time It’s for Real…
I think this is the 117th time we’ve been presented with the news that the Danish and German governments are about to sign an agreement about a Fehmer Belt-connection. Or the 118th.
PowerBook in the Dark
links for 2007-06-28
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New Poll Finds That Young Americans Are Leaning Left – New York Times
Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage,
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Crooked Timber » » Thatcherism after Blair
In other respects, though, the battle over the size and role of the state seems to have gone fairly conclusively to the social democrats.
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Regeringen.se Ny lärarutbildning utreds: Mer ämneskunskaper och återinförda lågstadielärare
Utredningen ska föreslå hur ämneskunskaperna hos blivande lärare kan fördjupas. Utredningen ska också överväga en återgång till fler lärarexamina i stället för dagens enda.
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HES: Re: ANN–European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH)
Among it’s many bad effects is to encourage people to rank another person not by reading and considering (a sample of) her work but by counting how many Grade A journals she has contributed to.
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David Colander notes that productivity rankings of economists based on journal articles use proxies (journal articles) that “are only a small portion of economists’ total output
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Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog – books: Is the internet killing proper research?
Time was, preparing a novel meant months in libaries; websites now offer instant insights. How profound they are is another matter.
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Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | This boom has 80s echoes. We know how that ended
Excessive leverage is the common theme of many financial crises in the past. Are we really so much cleverer than the financiers of the past?