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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Retire Already! Are 70+ year old professors a drag?
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Professors approaching 70 who are still enamored with hanging out with students and colleagues, or even fretting about money, have an ethical obligation to step back and think seriously about quitting....
Retire Already! Are 70+ year old professors a drag?
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Professors approaching 70 who are still enamored with hanging out with students and colleagues, or even fretting about money, have an ethical obligation to step back and think seriously about quitting....
How to succeed in business by really trying hard
Via Business Insider: "I think Carnegie's genius was first of all, an ability to foresee how things were going to change," historian John Inghan told PBS. ANDREW CARNEGIE: Rags To Riches - Business Insider Pivotal moments according to the biographical outline: “Soon...
Give This Gutter-Cleaning Robot to Your Chore-Phobic Friend
Via Mashable: The Looj uses a rubber augur and scrappers to lift debris from the gutters and throw it on the ground. Just place it in the gutter and hit the “Auto Clean” button. You can drive it from a wireless remote from the ground and bag the debris as it drops it....
Give This Gutter-Cleaning Robot to Your Chore-Phobic Friend
Via Mashable: The Looj uses a rubber augur and scrappers to lift debris from the gutters and throw it on the ground. Just place it in the gutter and hit the “Auto Clean” button. You can drive it from a wireless remote from the ground and bag the debris as it drops it....
UAV strikes have increased annually since 2009
Via Army Times: The number of UAV attacks in Afghanistan has increased every year under the Obama administration, according to data released by the Air Force on Nov. 7. UAV strikes have increased annually since 2009 - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq -...
UAV strikes have increased annually since 2009
Via Army Times: The number of UAV attacks in Afghanistan has increased every year under the Obama administration, according to data released by the Air Force on Nov. 7. UAV strikes have increased annually since 2009 - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq -...
The Last Policeman: solving a murder before an asteroid wipes out life on Earth
Via Boing Boing: It won't spoil the story when I tell you, because it's revealed on page 22: "six months and eleven days from today... a 6.5-kilometer-diameter ball of carbon and silicates will collide with Earth." That explains why most people in the police...