- The City Beat is finally starting that project to interview UND researchers about their fields. Did you know there’s a list of published articles by UND faculty at the Chester Fritz library Web site? The person in special collections that I talked to said that his department surveys all the academic departments every year and "mostly" get compliance. Absent-minded professors?
- Good news for North Dakota’s hemp industry.
- If you didn’t catch NPR’s This American Life this weekend, you missed out on an interesting take on the health care debate. The main topic is one that’s not been a big part of the debate: The actual cost of care and the amount of care patients demand — in spite of their doctors might say. Listen to the story in Act Two and you’ll realize the enemy is us.
- The logical conclusion to the ultra-minimalist view of government. Sounds like a pleasant place to live. (via Boing Boing.)
- "Is Conservatism Brain Dead?" asks Steven Hayward of the (conservative) American Enterprise Institute.
Conservatism has prospered most when its attacks on liberalism have combined serious alternative ideas with populist enthusiasm. When the ideas are absent, the movement has nothing to offer — except opposition. That doesn’t work for long in American politics.
Instead of men of letters like William F. Buckley Jr. to fight for the cause, we have know-nothing types like Rush and Hannity, whose main contribution is that liberals are to be hated and feared (No doubt the same is true of hateful demogogues.). (via Brainiac.)
- In other news, teabaggers are mounting an attack on the one party that is sympathetic to their message. The Greens went after Gore and got their worst nightmare, W. The angry right will now have to learn the same lesson, although, what could be worse than Obama? Hoho. Comedy gold.
- Wonderful interactive map from NPR showing where the transmission lines are, where they might be, how states produce electricity — let’s say there’s a lot of potential for wind power development! — and so on. (via Boing Boing.)
Letting the public (and even the undergraduates) know what all the professors are doing when they do “research” would be a good thing. Not to bash the humanities, but I hope you can interview some scientists–I think science is our best hope for the future, no matter how many people graduate with business degrees.
My plan is to do both, though I admit my fascination lies more with science than with the humanities.
However, I don’t think business qualifies as humanities. Like journalism and law, these are really vocational degrees that don’t, by themselves, necessarily shed light on the human condition.
Wikipedia has an interesting breakdown:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_disciplines
Oh, sorry, I really didn’t mean to lump business and law and journalism into humanities. Mostly what I meant was “non-sciences” since I still think like I’m at a small school with none of these advanced degree programs.
Classy of you to refer to people protesting the unprecedented growth of government by accusing them of an obscene act.
Very classy of them to call themselves that. There’s just no accounting for taste.
“Instead of men of letters like William F. Buckley Jr. to fight for the cause, we have know-nothing types like Rush and Hannity”
Not to insult Rush with the comparison, but on the left how about Olbermann and Schultz and Maddow?
Or is it just the proponents of limited government you hate?
Honestly, Tu-Uyen, how you’ve ever managed to pretend like you’re objective is beyond me. You don’t even see how much your bias for big-government liberalism leaks through to your supposedly objective reporting.
The folks proposing big and better government are always reasonable and sound in their logic. And those who don’t want to grow government, and may even want to shrink it, are radicals and nuts and cranks.
What’s funny is that the Herald’s circulation numbers point the direction your bias is leading you.
Here’s to unemployment (I’m betting) in the next 5 years or so!
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REF: “teabagging” reference
I don’t listen to Olbermann either or Maddow or Schultz. I don’t listen to talking heads period.
Your media criticism is baseless. All media suffers, not supposedly liberal or conservative media.
If the majority of the people in this town believe the same thing you do, they would not vote for the status quo year after year as they have. This state would not have elected the governor that it has. This country would not have voted for the president and the congress that it has if the majority were like you.
The mainstream media reflect the mainstream of society; you reflect the fringe. Don’t mistake loudness with numbers. You guys on the far right yell a lot, but you are far from the majority. Here’s a penny. Buy yourself a clue.
You guys spinning the news and otherwise misinforming the public has a lot to do with the situation as it is.
The good thing is that every year your guy’s influence crashes as more people figure out that your not doing your job.
When the paper goes away what will you do. Go into insults full time?
In other word your “mainstream” has dropped from 40,000 newspapers to 26,000 over the last ten years.
It doesn’t look good for you hatemongers.
The problem with so many “journalists” like Tran is that they are not that well educated so they tend to lack critical thinking skills that encourage objectivity. Tran’s comments to the Whistler provide sufficient evidence.
What else can you expect from a “reporter” who regularly is hung over at work, shows up late, and who is hated by most of his co-workers.
You get a mean-spirited name caller.
” “The mainstream media reflect the mainstream of society. . . .” ”
Your arrogance is showing. Sorry but that’s the most arrogant thing I’ve seen you write.
Jacobs whispering in your ear?
[quote]Very classy of them to call themselves that. There’s just no accounting for taste.[/quote]
Pics or it didn’t happen.
90% of members of the “mainstream media” voted for Obama, while only just over 50% of the “mainstream of society” voted for him.
Your ignorance is showing as well as your bias