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Date: October 21st, 2008

“Academic” Salaries

21 October, 2008 (14:36) | Education, Politics, Sports | 4 comments

Check out yesterday’s “PhD Comic” comparing the average salaries of University administrators, professors, grad students and football coaches.
Here’s a different graphic, focusing on the professors and coaches

(sort of my own mini cartoon-off, like between Randall Monroe and Farley Katz)

Rube-y Goldberg Tuesday V

21 October, 2008 (03:59) | Physics, Video | 1 comment

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Conferences

21 October, 2008 (03:58) | Conference stories |

I’ve been trying to catch up ever since going to a conference a few weeks ago. Somehow, the work didn’t know to stop piling up while I was away, and I’ve been getting new things to do faster than I can finish the old things. Printers dying, tape drives dying, things inside the [...]

Time Travelin’ Tunes

21 October, 2008 (03:54) | Music, Video |

80’s Music Videos
From the good old days when MTV played music videos, men were women and women were men.
Only one per artist, though, so if you want Ant Music, or even Goody Two Shoes, you’re out of luck; you get Kings of the Wild Frontier.

 

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