Jacob Christensen

You’ve probably seen it already, but it’s still funny: The Facebook of Genesis.

HT: Commenter michael e sullivan from Crooked Timber.

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No idea what this really is about, but I had to repost it because of the reference to Danish pastry. Beware Men in Black Hats!

Ideen om tid til fordybelse hører industrialderen til. (The idea about time to concentrate in a subject belongs to the industrial age).

Hanne Løngreen. Vice-dean of the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Copenhagen, quoted in the Danish newspaper Politiken about the role of universities.

Sausage factory, anyone?

Update: Surname of the boot camp manager vice-dean corrected. Or is copy-editing also considered so 19th Century by contemporary university managers?