September 2008
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The Watchdogs of Academia
A call on the professorial classes to help check abuses of governmental power. And to start confronting the Alberto Gonzaleses of the world — before they wreak havoc.
Wonks of the World, Unite!
For your Labor Day weekend reading pleasure, we have crafted summaries of recent research papers focusing on unions, strikes and the attitudes of workers. Collectively a bargain, they come to you fresh off the Miller-McCune factory floor.
The Watchdogs of Academia
A call on the professorial classes to help check abuses of governmental power. And to start confronting the Alberto Gonzaleses of the world — before they wreak havoc.
Pardon Me?
Can a new administration help the world forget the sins of its predecessor? Should it?
Wonks of the World, Unite!
For your Labor Day weekend reading pleasure, we have crafted summaries of recent research papers focusing on unions, strikes and the attitudes of workers. Collectively a bargain, they come to you fresh off the Miller-McCune factory floor.
The Danger of Fat-Think
Believing you're fat may be more emotionally damaging than actually being obese.
Dream Memo
The climate change memorandum we can only hope for.
- 1 Studying Drunken Promiscuity at Mardi Gras
- 2 Snowmaggedon Backs All Climate Change Views
- 3 Get Politically Engaged, Get Happy?
- 4 The Story of P(ee)
- 5 Why Have Women Magicians Vanished?
- 6 How to Film Nazis
- 7 Social Scientists Under Fire
- 8 Valentine's Day in the Lab
- 9 Unmasking Mardi Gras Deviants
- 10 Toxicology of the Tiny


