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Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last month, Yahoo! and Google launched a couple of contests (separately), and this week both are announcing the finalists. First up, Yahoo! is looking for a new Yodel , and they received 21,000 entries. They've narrowed it down to three contestants each for the US, UK and India . Click on the links below to view the finalists' entries and cast your vote: US Tiffany Jo from Arizona Carlo from Arizona...
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Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brian Z. Tamanaha, Washington University School of Law, has just published Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide: The Role of Politics in Judging, with the Princeton University Press. We’ve noted several essays advancing the arguments developed in the book here and here and here. The Press's description is as follows:According to conventional wisdom in American legal culture, the 1870s to 1920s...
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Miami Student (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
What now seems a popular grocery item for female college students, "morning after" pills fly off the shelves at local Oxford pharmacies and Miami University's Student Health Services (SHS). Some morning after pills, or emergency contraceptives, available in the United States without a prescription for men and women 17 or older include Plan B, Plan B One Step and Next Choice, according to...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The interesting sex life of the fruit bat comes under scrutiny in a new study A new study helps to answer the question raised in Thomas Nagel's 1974 philosophy essay What Is It Like to Be a Bat? A team of Chinese and British researchers focuses on an aspect of bat-ness that Nagel ignored: fellatio. Nagel, a professor then at Princeton University, now at New York University, published his batty –...
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The Essential Read (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It is no secret that many of us are better at giving advice to others, than we are at choosing wisely for ourselves. Also, we often seem to be smarter at committing our future-selves than we are at committing for the present. For example, ask yourself when you will start exercising more, and the answer will be "next week" rather than "this week". Ask yourself when you will start...
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Gypsy Scholar (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
(Image from Princeton University ) Some readers will recall a blog entry of nearly one month ago posted on Samuel Helfont's article for the Foreign Policy Research Institute's E-Notes , " Politics, Terrorism, and the Sunni Divide ." If the article interested you, then a longer version in monograph at 74 pages will likely interest you even more: The Sunni Divide: Understanding Politics and...
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Total Drek (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Do you remember a while back when I gave you a homework assignment ? Well, just because I love you, I'll give you a hint: the colleges that Ray Comfort is targetting- in both the U.S. and Canada- on November 19th are partly known thanks to the NCSE . The currently known list is: U.S. (19 Nov) Princeton University (NJ) Harvard University (MA) Yale University (CT) Stanford University (CA) University...
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Bench Memos (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs is sponsoring a panel discussion this Wednesday (yes, Veterans Day) titled “ Full Court Press: The Supreme Court, the Media and Public Understanding .” I’m amused to see that the four panelists—Emily Bazelon, Adam Liptak, Dahlia Lithwick, and Jeffrey Toobin—all come from the same sliver of the ideological...
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Edward Lucas (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The fall of Communism Wall stories Nov 5th 2009 From The Economist print edition How communism in eastern Europe collapsed, and what came next. Scholars and journalists give their account Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment . By Stephen Kotkin. Modern Library; 197 pages; $24. Buy from Amazon.com 1989: The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall . By Peter Millar. Arcadia;...
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News On Women (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Princeton University is seeking a Business/Grants Manager for the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. Located in New Jersey. Princeton University is seeking a Department Manager for the Department of Electrical Engineering. Located in New Jersey. Princeton University is seeking a...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
John M. Mason submits: The central premise of “ This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly , " (Princeton University Press, 2009) is that people need better time series data for studying the history of financial crises. The authors, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, believe that researchers, as well as practitioners, who have studied instances of financial crises, have...
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FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Norman Finkelstein Video Posted November 05, 2009 Courtesy Of "Information Clearing House" My guest tonight is a Jewish American political scientist and author who Jewish supporters of Israel right or wrong love to hate. He is – Norman Finkelstein. Norman Finkelstein grew up in New York City where, before he obtained academic employment, he was a part-time social worker with teenage...
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University of Florida News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A Princeton University history professor will speak Monday on the University of Florida campus about “Jewish Books and Christian Readers in Early Modern Europe.” Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam Professor of History and Chair of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton, is a cultural historian of Renaissance Europe. His lecture starts at [...]
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
"Woodrow Wilson" (Knopf, 704 pages, $35), By John Milton Cooper Jr.: Soon after he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson told a former colleague at Princeton University that all of his preparation for office was in the domestic sphere and it would be "an irony of fate" if his administration were to be consumed by concerns over foreign policy.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
"Woodrow Wilson" (Knopf, 704 pages, $35), By John Milton Cooper Jr.: Soon after he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson told a former colleague at Princeton University that all of his preparation for office was in the domestic sphere and it would be "an irony of fate" if his administration were to be consumed by concerns over foreign policy.
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roadrunnertalent | 08/06/2009
Three leading political observers grade the President's first six months BY Eric Bates Rolling Stone Magazine D uring Franklin Roosevelt's first 100 days in office, congress granted every request the new president made. Barack Obama, despite enjoying a decisive majority in both houses of Congress, hasn't been so fortunate. His economic stimulus package failed to win a single Republican vote in the
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prit | 06/04/2009
Gunman at Princeton campus News updated about the incident Princeton University was in lockdown after a person holding what appeared to be a handgun was spotted on campus, school officials said. The lockdown lasted for nearly an hour. Police took four juvenile suspects into custody just before 11:30 a.m. None of the four suspects were students. One had a dark green toy gun in his waistband that school
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entelekk | 06/03/2008
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