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These companies seem not to believe in the free market if they suppress the free exchange of information about their labor practices.

All too familiar. I am reminded why I stopped writing software for academic research. It's considered low-academic-value work, on a par with system administration or I.T. helpdesk …

Scientists are already doing what the author suggests. At least one very fine hydrologist and climate scientist of my acquaintance lived by Beckett's motto.

I heard that Norman Steenrod was pacing back and forth in Fine Hall thinking about this puzzle, until he solved it. This was before it was attributed to Boolos, according to my sou…

Fabricators will get shown up later rather than sooner by someone else if one insists upon making excuses for them.

Structured procrastination appears analogous to the second-price auction, in which the winner of an auction pays the second-highest bid. This strategy leads the bidders to bid the …

This is correct. In retrospect my math Ph.D. was a waste of time. There have been proposals over the years on how to address the overabundance of PhDs. One approach seems to have b…

I left after being continually relegated to low-academic value technical support work for established academics. Last year I turned down four opportunities to participate in NSF gr…

Preposterous. The individuals shown are young, photogenic, employed, attractive, physically fit persons with no obvious medical maladies. The target demographic is minuscule.

I wrote about a linear programming proof of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem due to Rakesh Vohra and his collaborators in a series of posts, starting with http://deniallogic.blogspot.…

As a New York Times Op-Ed author myself (with a friend; URL http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/opinion/09orlow.html ), I can assert that the typical trajectory after such a performa…