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Category Archives: Scarcity
Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education
They can’t find a position anywhere that uses the skills on which they most prided themselves in college. They are forced to learn about new things that don’t interest them nearly as much. No one is impressed by their knowledge … Continue reading
The Peter principle revisited: A computational study
In the late sixties the Canadian psychologist Laurence J. Peter advanced an apparently paradoxical principle, named since then after him, which can be summarized as follows: ‘Every new member in a hierarchical organization climbs the hierarchy until he/she reaches his/her … Continue reading
Posted in Malthus, Observatorio, Pickle, Scarcity, Science
Tagged Why Johnny can't manage
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Cave of the Lost Secrets
The people who are into this hypergeometry do amazing images. See this artlce from which the link to the image below was taken.
How To Spend It
Assuming, of course, that you have it.
Posted in O mores, Observatorio, Rod Serling, Scarcity, Vance Parker
Tagged untimely, worldly
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Matt Legend Gemmell – What have you tried?
Questions are more interesting than answers.
The Used Future
the brand new idea that the future could be gritty, worn, dilapidated and a mixed bag of modern and ancient
Posted in Albedo, Escalier, Malthus, Observatorio, Recall, Scarcity, Vance Parker
Tagged painted word
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Saskia Sassen: A Bad Idea: Using a Financial Solution to the Financial Crisis
A little less leverage
16 Type Foundries You’ve Probably Never Heard Before (And 1 Font From Their Libraries) | Design daily news
Doctors of humane letters
Dr. Robert Epstein: McCain, Obama, and Some Painful Truths About Aging
the highest mental age we can achieve is fifteen and a half
Project Mouse | Installing Django for Leopard with MySQL Support
When compiling/installing MySQLdb for Mac OS X Server Leopard 10.5.x one will receive a different error for gcc about not being able to find my_conf.h. Because MySQL 5.0 is pre-installed in the Server addition this error stumped me until I … Continue reading