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

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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

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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.

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How To Spend It

Assuming, of course, that you have it.

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Matt Legend Gemmell – What have you tried?

Questions are more interesting than answers.

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The Used Future

the brand new idea that the future could be gritty, worn, dilapidated and a mixed bag of modern and ancient

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Saskia Sassen: A Bad Idea: Using a Financial Solution to the Financial Crisis

A little less leverage

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16 Type Foundries You’ve Probably Never Heard Before (And 1 Font From Their Libraries) | Design daily news

Doctors of humane letters

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Dr. Robert Epstein: McCain, Obama, and Some Painful Truths About Aging

the highest mental age we can achieve is fifteen and a half

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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

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