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Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 40 minutes ago
The J. Michael Goodson Law Library, Duke University is seeking an experienced Foreign and International Law Librarian to join our team of skilled law-trained professionals working in a research-oriented, technologically innovative environment. In addition to teaching legal research and other...
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The Triangle Business Journal (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Educational Testing Services is revamping the Graduate Record Exam, or GRE – a change that will affect the graduate programs at Duke University, North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Triangle’s other institutions of higher learning. .
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Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | yesterday
Aalund NetSearch A/S, the Copenhagen based market intelligence pioneer, today announced that the Oncology NewsCatalyst now includes cancer research from more than 135 Hospitals, Universities and Cancer Centers. COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, December 09, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Oncology NewsCatalyst is a global information service with daily intelligence for managers, researchers and scientists...
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Containing Multitudes - American Studies UEA (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Two very different portraits of university life in America. First, as part of their Pinched: Tales from an Economic Downturn series, Salon presents "I live in a van down by Duke University", Ken Ilgunas' account of his experiences, well, living in a van by Duke University:For some, van-dwelling may conjure images of pop-culture losers forced into desperate...
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cryptogon.com (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
I have a good friend who did something like this for a year as he finished his PhD. He slept under his desk in his lab and “bathed” in the women’s bathroom during early AM hours. (Men, in case you don’t know, the women’s bathroom is usually much cleaner than the men’s.) He bought an [...]
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PRWeb - Daily News Feed (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The fifth annual Champion® Challenge will take place Jan. 30 – 31, 2010 at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The event, organized by US Lacrosse, will feature the U.S. men’s and women’s national lacrosse team programs, Duke University’s men’s and women’s lacrosse teams, the United States Military Academy’s...
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Leiter Reports: A Group Blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
A philosopher at Duke has shared with me the following statement on the admissions situation there (raised by commenters here): The Duke University Dept of Philosophy regrets to announce that it is suspending admission to its Ph.D. Program for the...
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Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... The Tamiflu resistant clusters both appeared in hospitals, one in Cardiff Wales, and the other at Duke University Hospital in North Carolina. Both apparently occurred among a small group of immunocompromised patients. Oseltamivir ( Tamiflu ) Resistance is associated with the swapping of the amino acid histidine for tyrosine at position 275 (N1 numbering) in the neuraminidase glycoprotein...
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Freakonomics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ralph Keeney, a decision analyst at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, uses decision sciences to give "practical and usable advice" to help people make decisions, from lifestyle choices to management strategies.
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NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | yesterday
Maestro Knows - Episode 1 (9th Wonder) from Maestro Knows on Vimeo . An intimate view of 9th Wonder (Patrick Douthit), my co-conspirator in "Sampling Soul," the course we will be offering @ Duke University in the Spring of 2010. Check the flip of the MJ sample midway.
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NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | yesterday
'THE PRECIOUS SPECIALS' - A CONVERSATION WITH THE BROTHERS Hosted by Esther Armah ( WBAI / Wakeup Call ) Guests are: Quintin Walcott , Director of the CONNECT Training Institute and CONNECT’s Male Anti-Violence Initiatives; Mark Anthony Neal , author and Professor of African and African American Studies @ Duke University; Sharif Simmons , Creative Writing Teacher at the Alice Steven...
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Right Mind (Free subscription) | yesterday
Distinguished (and atheist) Duke University philosophy professor, Alex Rosenberg, has written an insightful, brutally honest statement about the implications of scientific naturalism (Darwinism). Rosenberg concludes that if Darwinian naturalism is true, then life has no meaning, consciousness is an illusion, and history is bunk. You can see his article The Disenchanted Naturalist’s...