links for 2007-08-17

17Aug07

Une espèce à part au Sénégal (Gros cons et grosses connes)
(tags: funny text)

Praesidium: Research Summary
(tags: political-science)

Unappealing situation (on Nature Medicine’s blog)
People often ask me what the best part of editing a journal like Nature Medicine is. Well, let me tell you instead about the worst part — handling manuscript appeals.
(tags: peer_review)

The Israel Lobby and U.S. [...]

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links for 2007-08-16

16Aug07

Rétrocontroverse : 1997, communisme et nazisme, histoire et mémoires
(tags: french_history)

Foreign grad students and research
“New research shows that visa policies that restrict foreign grad students in general, and favour those with greater financial resources, harm the research output of US science and engineering departments.”
(tags: american_research_policy)

The Internet, Plagiarism, and Fabulism
What is the net effect of the internet [...]

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links for 2007-08-15

15Aug07

Bourdieu était-il carriériste ?
(tags: sociology)

The New York Times slips up on sexual math
(tags: stats)

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links for 2007-08-14

14Aug07

Pouvoir d’achat pour qui ?
Par Esther DUFLO.

(tags: french_economy)

Jours tranquilles à Clichy-sous-Bois: Merci les émeutiers !
“Sans ces émeutes, les politiques n’auraient pas été aussi nombreux à fouler le sol de notre commune, ma sœur n’aurait jamais trouvé de travail aussi rapidement. En effet, celle-ci a été recrutée par un cabinet privé pour la rénovation de c
(tags: [...]

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links for 2007-08-12

12Aug07

Storming the Palace in Political Science (The Perestroika Movement)
Published in 2001 in the Chronicle of Higher Ed.
(tags: political-science)

Clinton confronts critic (CNN video): “educated instead of rhetorical”
Hillary Clinton is spinning the “You advocate socialised medicine” Rep attack to “I advocate universal Medicare” — exactly like Matt Santos in The West Wing’s Season 7 presidential debate. The [...]

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links for 2007-08-11

11Aug07

Les Soft Machine : délire ou futur ? - Rock & Folk N° 13 - Décembre 1967
(tags: progressive_rock soft_machine)

Robert Wyatt - “Après la mort de Coltrane, je n’ai pas entendu grand-chose de bien impressionnant” - Rock & Folk N° 435 - Novembre 2003
(tags: progressive_rock robert_wyatt)

Soft Machine Studio 1970 Complete Segment part 1 of 2
(tags: progressive_rock [...]

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links for 2007-08-10

10Aug07

Nouveau bilan médiocre sur les routes françaises
“Globalement, depuis le début de l’année, le nombre de morts a crû de 1,8 %, laissant craindre une remontée de la mortalité après cinq années de forte diminution.”
(tags: french_society)

Rétrocontroverse : 1995, Vichy, c’était aussi la France
(tags: french_history)

Marduk (band)
“Marduk was founded in Norrköping, Sweden in 1990 by Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson. [...]

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links for 2007-08-07

07Aug07

Trahisons des clercs
On Ignatieff’s ext about politics and Iraq.
(tags: american_politics war)

Jacks of all stages - Times Online
The reunion of Macbeth, Poland, and Rammstein. Brilliant.
(tags: edinburgh theatre)

Teatr Biuro Podr
(tags: theatre)

Greg Mankiw’s Blog: The Sociology of Economics
(tags: sociology economics)

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Features an angry post about the NYT journalist who busted him.
(tags: blog mac apple)

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links for 2007-08-06

06Aug07

Ten Things Your IT Department Won’t Tell You
(tags: software www)

Proxy.org - The Proxy Authority
(tags: www)

David Bowie
(tags: rock)

Iraq - Washington - Military Forces - Politics and Government - New York Times
Michael Ignatieff: “The philosopher Isaiah Berlin once said that the trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than [...]

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links for 2007-08-05

05Aug07

Jake Brown falls
(tags: video sports)

The divergent paths of sociology and political science
On Org Theory. The missing word in the title is: American. Or North-American. None of the observations are valid in Europe.
(tags: political-science)

InFlow - Mapping and Measuring Business, Organizational and Social Networks / OrgNet
(tags: sna)

Good jargon and bad jargon
(tags: writing)

KIT - Keep Your Stuff in [...]

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