academia

Something that’s been intriguing to me of late (here, here and at other times when Evolution has come up as a debate topic) is how obviously the issue of Evolution goes

Jay Greene points out that not only are political donations from academia going almost exclusively to Democrats those donors also show an almost uniform preference for the junior Senator from Illinois.

No real surprise in the research that Jay Greene reveals in his post today but it needs to be said out loud and over and over. Academia is NOT a representation of America. It's likely a representation of what they'd LIKE America to be... but America isn't there yet.

Ideablob.com attracts a large number of ideas for social ventures. This one caught my attention as continue as guest advisor for this week.

It must be spring break or something, because this fella, a constitutional law professor at Yale, writes a whole piece on how Clinton and Obama could actually “share” the presidency, like some sort of 21st century version of the French directorate, which would be your average Democ

1.  Jayne’s grandpa died.

2.  La Chola has been covering Andrea Smith’s failed tenure bid.  Yes, you can be nominated for a Nobel prize and that’s not good enough for Michigan.

Dean Pat Raines writes about the growth in interest in social entrepreneurship within academia over at Belmont's blog Strictly Business. Speaking about our own program that launches next fall:

The Tennessean previews the appearance later this week at Vanderbilt University of Guatemalan activist and author Rigoberta Menchu, who won a Nobel Prize for her book I, Rigoberta Menchu, and her work on behalf of the indigenous peoples of her country.