Archive for February, 2011
The disheartening attrition of
would-be scientists may be the worst part of the career choice: while other professional programs essentially supply graduates to viable careers (even law!), science Ph.D.s are taught early on that they are likely to shift into completely unrelated fields following graduation. This is largely a result of shortsighted federal funding policy, of course- but the [...]
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Knowledge bias
From Krugman: It’s particularly troubling to apply some test of equal representation when you’re looking at academics who do research on the very subjects that define the political divide. Biologists, physicists, and chemists are all predominantly liberal; does this reflect discrimination, or the tendency of people who actually know science to reject a political tendency [...]
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Super Bowl SUNday science
NASA produces 360-degree views of the sun; releases them today for the purposes of making a bad pun.
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