October 4, 2008 – 01:04 pm
From Improbable Research’s 2008 Ig Nobel Prize Winners: “The 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, October 2, at the 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. [Here's the award given in the NUTRITION cateegory:] Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, [...]
From Since You Asked’s I’m 21 and addicted to pot — but I’m doing just great!: “Court is the worst place to be stoned — except for funerals. Court is bad and pot makes it worse. You know how the taste of an orange or Milky Way bar is magnified by the high? So the [...]
February 8, 2008 – 01:06 pm
From the Rutland Herald’s College narrows search for chief: “Green Mountain College is getting close to choosing the future president of the school after recently rounding their list of finalists down to four: Don Bantz (provost of Evergreen State College), Paul Fonteyn (provost at UMass Boston), Robert Huntington (an executive with 21 years of experience [...]
September 10, 2006 – 01:04 pm
In Academic Freedom in Iran and America, Robert Jensen, a professor of journalism at University of Texas at Austin, writes, “It’s interesting that [Iranian President] Ahmadinejad justified his desire to deal with dangerous professors because of the university officials’ ‘tendency to introduce politics into academic affairs.’ The phrase is reminiscent of a common complaint aimed [...]
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