Yet another conservative think tank has been established in Washington DC, called the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP, as they call themselves). They intend to concentrate their attention on people with below-median incomes or net worth, looking at conservative market principles and harnessing or bending them to help Americans struggling to survive in …
Non-tenure track teaching staff – commonly referred to as adjuncts – now make up approximately 70% (yes, you read it correctly) of all teaching staff in American higher education. This means that roughly three out of every four courses an American student takes are taught by someone without job security who is working on minimal …
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“The secret of a good blog posting is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible”. (Taking off on George Burns) I’m sure you have noticed the incredible prolixity of the commentariat. My blog task is to take information on interesting topics, to sum …
A few weeks ago Owen, a contributor to this blog, criticised the BBC news as being superficial and lacking substance. This got me looking more often and more critically at it in its broadcast and web page forms. I have to conclude that Owen is absolutely right. For instance, yesterday the BBC carried a story …
About one third of all medical studies in the United States involving children never end up being put to use because scientists frequently don’t publish the results of their work. 19 percent of the studies that recruited children didn’t run to completion because researchers weren’t able to recruit as many volunteers as they needed to …
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