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Quoted: The Great Expectations Edition

Edit The Atlantic 20 Aug 2016

“We expect women to be primarily responsible for child care. When men ‘help out’ they get brownie points,” —Christin Munsch, a sociologist. “A 100.1 sex ratio was too good to miss,” —Greg Hurst, an evolutionary biologist, on why he chose to study blue moon butterflies, which are overwhelmingly female. “What I don’t think people appreciate about farming is that it’s very cerebral,”—Chris Holman, who left academia to become a farmer ... ....

Subramanian Swamy takes potshots at Raghuram Rajan again

Edit DNA India 20 Aug 2016

--> Sat, 20 Aug 2016-08.24am , New Delhi , PTI. This time, Swamy quoted an IMF paper to debunk Rajan's inflation-centric interest rates policies ... Personal?" Swamy tweeted ... Rajan's three-year term comes to an end on September 4. ALSO READ ... Amid attacks, Rajan in June surprised the markets when he, in a letter to the RBI staff, announced that he would return to academia and not seek a second term as the central bank governor ... ....

Early Harvest projects under CPEC to complete by 2017-18: Ahsan Iqbal (Ministry of Planning and Development of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Aug 2016

(Source. Ministry of Planning and Development of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan) ... 'The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC is fate changer for 3 billion people across the region ... Ahsan Iqbal said that CPEC summit would enable provinces to explore opportunities in CPEC to promote inclusive development and it would also help to create strong links between academia and industry for collaborative research in areas relating of CPEC ....

Turkey brushes off criticism, NATO-exit talk

Edit Arkansas Online 20 Aug 2016

The failed coup in Turkey has revived a debate in Washington over whether that country should remain in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and be a host to U.S. nuclear weapons, but the response in Ankara and some U.S. diplomatic circles is simply puzzlement. U.S ... Erdogan responded to the attempt to oust him by purging tens of thousands of suspected Gulenists from the military, police, civil service, academia and media ... "It is not."....

UC Riverside Sociology Professor Named President of the Pacific Sociological Association, Planning 88th Annual Conference (University of California, Riverside)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Aug 2016

Inequity, Discrimination, Bullying, and Retaliation in Academia' conference ... Inequity, Discrimination, Bullying, and Retaliation in Academia.' The conference will be held April 6 - 9, 2017, at The Hilton Portland and Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon ... on inequity in academia, including the National Science Foundation ADVANCE funded scholarship....

Leaving Academia to Become a First-Generation Farmer

Edit The Atlantic 19 Aug 2016

Chris Holman left a career in the military and academia to start a small farm with his wife outside of Madison ... My point of view was that if the farm ever imploded because we didn't know what we were doing, a fallback position in academia was still there ... How has having those different jobs previously—in the military and in academia—affected how you look at work as a farmer?....

The 'Obvious' Career Choices

Edit The Atlantic 19 Aug 2016

Another reader, Kate, responds to my callout about the cultural norms and pressures that might be affecting the way women make career decisions ... But almost all of them, family and friends, came from the same worlds of academia and design that my parents came from ... A man raised in my scenario would have had the same feminist upbringing and would have been given access to the same role models in design and academia ... I like what I do ... ....

Oftalmólogos instan a que los ojos sean parte de una estrategia de envejecimiento saludable

Edit PR Newswire 19 Aug 2016

SAN FRANCISCO, 19 de agosto de 2016 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- De acuerdo con una encuesta nacional dada a conocer hoy por la American Academy of Ophthalmology (Academia Estadounidense de Oftalmología), casi dos de cada tres adultos ... ....

Building innovation centre to double postgrad intake

Edit Scotsman 19 Aug 2016

The Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) is set to support 30 postgraduate students in the forthcoming academic year – double last year’s figure ... READ MORE. Construction innovation centre approves first projects. Launched in October 2014, the CSIC brings together industry, academia and the public sector in a bid to drive innovation across the industry ... ....

Nobel prize-winning economist Stiglitz tells us why 'neoliberalism is dead'

Edit Business Insider 19 Aug 2016

Neoliberalism is dead. Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize winning economist and former advisor to ex-US President Bill Clinton, says that the consensus surrounding neoliberal economic thought has come to an end. Speaking to Business Insider following the launch of his latest book "The Euro ... "I can talk about this from the point of view or academia or even in policy circles. In academia, I think it has pretty well become rejected ... ....

Four New Companies Invested over NT$ 140 million and Stationed in Taichung Software Park (Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan))

Edit Public Technologies 19 Aug 2016

In the future, it will develop other cultural and creative products with local characteristics in central and southern Taiwan, organize various promotion activities by making use of Academia-Industry cooperation resources in TSP, and promote the prosperity of local economy ... various resources from industry, academia, and research institutes....

Salford PhD student shines at global research conference (University of Salford)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Aug 2016

(Source. University of Salford). Thursday 18 Aug 2016. A PhD researcher at the University of Salford has had the opportunity to present her research paper at an international research conference in Boston ... She said ... It was the biggest conference that I have ever been at and I was really excited to be there ... IGLC is an international network of researchers from practice and academia in architecture, engineering and construction ... (noodl....

Synthetic Environment Tower Community of Practice (Attorney General's Office)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Aug 2016

(Source. Attorney General's Office). The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory () is looking to expand its Synthetic Environment Tower of Excellence () Community of Practice (). Since 2004, the has provided a mechanism for the Ministry of Defence (), industry and academia to work together on areas of research in simulation and synthetic environments ... Bharat Patel, the Chair, says. ... The application to the is now open ... (noodl. 35003754) ....