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Corporate capitalism largely started colonization. Most of the English-speaking colonization of America was started by companies like the Virginia Company, the Massachusetts Bay Co…

Dental procedures can setup trigger points in the masseter and pterygoid, as well as in your neck, all of which can cause headaches until they're resolved. Massage and trigger poin…

The problem is that there's so little money in academia. In the US, state support for public universities has plummeted in the 21st century. In the last state I lived in, the state…

Some schools really focus on teaching to the test. Since the tests the student's take require answering questions based on passages, the school requires teachers to only use simila…

Ubuntu Linux used to use a SHA2 hash repeated 5000 times, but my Ubuntu 22.04 system uses yescrypt, which is one of those KDFs.

Being married doesn't necessarily increase your income tax in the US. Some couples pay more, while others pay less, depending on how incomes differ between the two spouses both in …

Heavy government involvement with public universities in the form of subsidies once made public education free in some states and low tuition everywhere. As government subsidies ha…

Most industry positions are much better than adjunct positions. Adjunct faculty are temporary part-time workers who teach one or two classes per term. They are paid $1000-4000 per …

I subscribe to the The New York Review of Books (nybooks.com) for in-depth reviews and also follow RSS feeds from The London and LA Review of Books.

You might expect more. The US has had several more recent wars. Medical technology keeps a lot of people alive that would have died in the WWII era, leading to higher percentages o…

For public universities, declining state government funding is the primary reason for tuition increases. Funding for the state university nearest me declined from the state providi…

Remember that "them" above refers to the native population in Hawaii in the post it's taken from. The reason the referendum succeeded was a big decline in the native population com…

There are efforts to give reviewers credit for their work, like Publons.

The time period in the article is too short. However, when I grew up, abortion wasn't an issue for Protestants, which was the dominant religion where I lived. They considered it a …

Since military might no longer rests on large conscripted forces and once again is based on small professional forces with expensive equipment, where does that leave democracy?

The use of probability distributions and calculus in introductory statistics is a historical artifact. See my comment above about resampling approaches.

The use of calculus in introductory statistics is a historical artifact. Before computers, it was easier to use mathematical models like probability distributions than to do resamp…

I was only writing about public universities.

Focusing on workforce training is a choice of values too, that not everyone agrees is important.

Universities have a broader purpose than training people for the workplace. Ironically, increased costs is a large part of the reason why society's vision of universities has becom…

College costs have increased due to decreased state funding and increased regulation (both legal and from accreditors), which requires more administrative staff. Ironically, decrea…

MS IE was built from a web browser MS bought from Spyglass, so two startups died in that war. By bundling IE with Windows, MS escaped paying royalties to Spyglass (they were sued o…

While most comments focus on fiction, I find the real value of the NYRB for me are the reviews of nonfiction books. These reviews go into much more depth than reviews in other plac…

Inherited wealth leads to powerful dynasties, both at the local and national scale, who dominate local politics as well as economic opportunities. We see that in both India and the…

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