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Bernard-Henri Lévy: The Honor of Muslims
The honor of Muslims is the Syria that stands up, doubly insurgent, fighting on two fronts: that of a dictatorship that has become insane, killing with a vengeance (conservative estimates, at least 80,000 dead), and that of political Islamism, represented within the rebellion by the Al Nosra jihadi front, an...
huffingtonpost.com (3 hours ago)
Brandon Kralik: Today's New Old Masters Outshine the Avante-Garde
When I told my art teacher I wanted to learn to paint like Caravaggio he informed me that all of the secrets of the old masters had been lost. He gave me a syllabus that included stitching a rug, throwing a pot, and silk-screening a T-shirt. I ditched class and failed art while at the same time I sat down by the...
huffingtonpost.com (8 hours ago)
Bruce Springsteen Makes a Grown Man Cry in New Documentary Trailer
Bruce Springsteen inspires intense loyalty. That's the thesis behind Springsteen & I, an upcoming crowdsourced documentary that looks at the effect the Boss has had on his fans' lives...
spin.com (1 day ago)
Understanding Europe: After the darkest hour
The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union. By Luuk van Middelaar. Translated by Liz Waters. Yale University Press; 352 pages; $40 and £25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukThe Lost Continent. By Gavin Hewitt. Hodder & Stoughton; 368 pages; £20. Buy from Amazon.co.ukTHE euro crisis grinds on. But,...
economist.com (1 day ago)
Try This Experiment Yourself...
Submitted by Tim Price via Sovereign Man blog, James Montier’s bible on behavioural finance, ‘Behavioural investing’, points out two recent discoveries by neuroscientists that have relevance to all investors: 1) We are hard-wired to think short-term, not long-term2) We also seem to be hard-wired to confirm to the...
zerohedge.com (2 days ago)
Eva Longoria Gets Her Master’s Degree Tonight
It’s graduation day for Eva Longoria and she’s going to go on stage and accept her diplomat at Cal State University, Northridge, RumorFix has learned. Eva enrolled in the master’s program in Chicano Studies three year ago and she wrote a thesis on “Success STEMS From Diversity: The Value of... Read More
rumorfix.com (2 days ago)
SI's Male College Athlete of the Year: Cornell's Kyle Dake
The longest writing project of Kyle Dake's Cornell career spanned 144 pages and exhausted two ballpoint ink cartridges, but it earned him zero credits toward his status as an academic All-America. This was a voluntary thesis, on the subject of making wrestling history. It took 3 1/2 years to complete and consisted...
si.com (2 days ago)
Jared Bernstein: Government Failure vs. Market Failure
Chuck Lane's got an interesting piece out today about austerity and Keynesian stimulus that leads to a smart, simple policy recommendation (and for the record, "simple" is a beautiful word when it comes to policy). Lane's argument, which suffers a few serious empirical oversights I'll get to in a moment, is that...
huffingtonpost.com (3 days ago)
This Adorable Flipboard Printing GIF Camera Needs To Be Real
Are you ready to have your heart broken? The GIF-TY camera, designed and built by Jiho Jang as part of his college thesis, is an adorable Polaroid-like snapper that captures animated GIFs and actually prints them out as tiny flipbooks on instant Z-ink paper. Except that for the time being, you can't buy one. Sure,...
gizmodo.com (3 days ago)
Wayne Meisel: A Summer Read for Change: 'Cut Dead But Still Alive'
One of the blessings of my life has been the opportunity to meet some of the world's great leaders before they were recognized as such. I remember when a Princeton undergraduate walked into my office at the Bonner Foundation to tell me about her senior thesis and her plans to start a teaching corps. That was the...
huffingtonpost.com (4 days ago)
Harvard students seek probe of controversial PhD thesis on Hispanics' IQ
Harvard University students signed and delivered a petition to President Drew Faust last week demanding an investigation into how the school awarded a doctorate in 2009 based on a dissertation that claimed that Hispanics are not as smart as whites.
washingtonpost.com (4 days ago)
Carcasses Help Pinpoint Humans' Earliest Use Of Spears
By Heather Pringle Archaeologists have long debated when early humans began hurling stone-tipped spears and darts at large prey. By throwing a spear, instead of thrusting it, humans could hunt buffalo and other dangerous game from a safe distance, with less risk of a goring or mauling. But direct evidence of this...
huffingtonpost.com (5 days ago)
Guest Post: Why Bonds Aren't Dead & The Dollar Will Get Weaker
Submitted by Lance Roberts of Street Talk Live, There have been quite a few bold predictions, since the beginning of the year, that the dollar was set to soar and that the great "bond bull market" was dead. The primary thesis behind these views was that the economy was set to strengthen and inflation would begin to...
zerohedge.com (6 days ago)
Thesis on a Homicide: Film Review
Hernan Goldrid's cat-and-mouse thriller revolves around a law professor investigating a murder on campus.
hollywoodreporter.com (6 days ago)
Harvard students demand inquiry into immigration thesis
Students from the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University are demanding an inquiry into Harvard’s 2009 approval of a thesis claiming that Hispanic immigrants lack “raw cognitive ability or intelligence” compared with whites.
boston.com (7 days ago)
Kennedy School students demand inquiry into immigration thesis
Students from the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University are demanding an inquiry into Harvard’s 2009 approval of a thesis claiming that Hispanic immigrants lack “raw cognitive ability or intelligence” compared with whites.
boston.com (7 days ago)
Black: Veterinary profession leads to deep thought
I’ve been pondering the state of veterinary medicine in the new millennium. These subjects deserve deeper thought or at least a master’s degree thesis: ■ Why a barber and a surgeon should never say, “oops!” ■ The plethora of chicken and the dearth of poultry practitioners ■ The value of veterinarians in the war...
amarillo.com (7 days ago)
Ambac Is Latest Play On Bank Mortgage Lawsuits
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Ambac Financial shares were surging Friday after BTIG analyst Mark Palmer initiated coverage of the recently-reorganized monoline bond insurer with a "buy" rating and a $31 price target. Palmer appears to be the only analyst covering Ambac at this point, though his thesis on the insurer looks...
thestreet.com (7 days ago)
Mystery Sponsor Of Weapons And Money To Syrian Mercenary "Rebels" Revealed
Previously, when looking at the real underlying national interests responsible for the deteriorating situation in Syria, which eventually may and/or will devolve into all out war with hundreds of thousands killed, we made it very clear that it was always and only about the gas, or gas pipelines to be exact, and...
zerohedge.com (8 days ago)
Attacks on thesis dishonest
It's unsettling to be on the same side as Rush Limbaugh. But Jason Richwine deserves a defense against the intellectual bullying that drove him from his job.
telegram.com (8 days ago)
MJ Rosenberg: It's Not Hatred for Israel That Fuels Support for the Palestinians, It's the Opposite
Sometimes it is instructive to listen to what Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says because his way of seeing the Israel-Palestinian conflict is typical of the thinking of both the Netanyahu government and its lobby here. I say "sometimes" because most of Dershowitz's opinions can be found in a dozen other...
huffingtonpost.com (9 days ago)
The Other Great Rotation - From Reach-For-Yield To Dash-For-Trash
It appears that the only thing driving this market higher now is shorts covering. The 'most shorted' names (as we first suggested here) have tripled the performance of the market in the last 4 days (+5.2%). Simply put, this is not a reach-for-yield anymore (which is somehow pitched as a reasonable conservative 'ah...
zerohedge.com (9 days ago)
Penry Williams
The Oxford historian Penry Williams, who has died aged 88, showed as much determination and high principle in crossing swords with officialdom over the plight of asylum seekers in his 80s as he had done half a century earlier in contesting the nature of Tudor government with GR Elton. His take on 16th-century...
guardian.co.uk (9 days ago)
"No One Gets Rich Betting Against The Market - Until The Moment The Market Is Wrong"
Via Bill Blain of Mint Partners, There a couple of good reasons to be more than moderately concerned about what’s happening in the fixed income space. Once more my gallant crew, we are sailing into choppy waters... which may mean trouble ahead, but it also spells opportunity! Two things concern me: Firstly, despite...
zerohedge.com (11 days ago)
Crazy Legs Conti: But Is It Art?
Tilda Swinton has been making a kerfuffle in the art world for her exhibit at MOMA titled, "The Maybe" where she naps in a Plexiglas box for an entire day. Perhaps that is why the 24-hour news cycle missed my performance art at Pratt as part of Lucia Pedi's senior thesis exhibit. I sat at a table with a box of...
huffingtonpost.com (12 days ago)
"The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is The Lack Of Fear Itself"
With NYSE margin debt at extremes once again, complacency at all-time highs, valuations (across equity and credit) frothy, and the cacophony of bullish consensus momentum chasers, it seems the anti-thesis of FDR's speech appears quite appropriate... Extreme Sentiment - check! Extreme Leverage - check! Extreme...
zerohedge.com (13 days ago)
NFL knows US professional rugby union could be a very good deal indeed | Tom Dart
The latest attempt to launch a professional rugby union tournament in the US relies on a simple premise: the country has thousands of elite-level rugby players. They just don't know it yet. In any given year there are about 15,000 seniors playing American football at college. Only 1.7% will make it to the NFL,...
guardian.co.uk (13 days ago)
ETSU honors graduate headed to Harvard
Harvard University is among the most renowned educational institutions in the world, and come fall, an East Tennessee State University graduate will be researching physics at that centuries-old school. Olivia Miller, from Maryville, will graduate summa cum laude today from ETSU with a major in physics and a minor...
johnsoncitypress.com (14 days ago)
Jennifer Schwab: Fortune Green: Consumers Won't Pay Extra, But Companies Will
LAGUNA BEACH - The top movers and shakers of the corporate sustainability world recently gathered at Fortune Brainstorm Green to examine, analyze and summarize the success of green B to B, and the simultaneous failure of green B to C commerce. At the end of an intense, informative and insightful three days, the...
huffingtonpost.com (14 days ago)
MONEY MANAGER: Why I Decided To Buy Tesla When The Rest Of Wall Street Said 'Sell'
Tesla's meteoric rise in the last ten days has been a surprise to most of Wall Street. In the last 2 days alone the stock is up 40% after a smashing earnings report. The shorts are white-knuckled and praying. The thing is, not every money manager bought into their story. One of those skeptics was Cole Wilcox, CEO of...
businessinsider.com (14 days ago)
