A few weeks ago I discovered a website that TechCruch calls “Hulu for Education.” The website is actually called “Academic Earth” and features easy to find and watch lectures on many subjects. As someone who has been a big fan of MIT’s Open CourseWare for years, I naturally got really excited and tonight I finally [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Blogging drought, good excuse.
I started a new job recently, and now I commute between Denver and Boulder for work. So now aside from being busier than usual (due to employment… I am not complaining!), almost 1.5 hours of my day are spent in my car driving. I need to slowly start establishing a routine that will leave me [...]
Silence, as an interview technique
James Fallows discusses something I would be too scared to try: The “let the silence stretch out” approach, which is not discussed as often as it should be, can be a surprisingly valuable interviewing technique. The truth is that most people who are being interviewed would like to think that they are providing you with [...]
Contemporary Painter: Cecily Brown
I came across Cecily Brown while looking through a book featuring some of the better known contemporary artists. Ms. Brown is a figurative painter, and lives in New York. You can listen to an interesting interview with Ms. Brown at Frank Prattle by Zefrey Throwell.
Bribery in Eastern Europe
Yesterday, there was a devastating story in the New York Times about bribery in the health care system in Romania. It seems that if you want good medical care Romania, you have to know how to bribe your doctor – because if you give too little, it won’t make any difference anyway. Quote below: [the [...]
Things I don’t know anything about, but…
…but want to learn more about. One of my main motivations for starting this blog has been to explore toipcs I don’t really know much about. There are a lot things that I want to know more about, and I will be sharing more these topics in future posts. I realized tonight that I’ve been [...]
