The New York Times has an interesting article in today’s paper by Mary Jenkins covering a new federal program set to provide substantial raises in funding for a minority of graduate students in the sciences. The Pell-Mell Grants, a joint venture of the Federal Government, Pell Grant program, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is projected […]
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Getting rich in graduate school
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1 April 2007 |
10:56 |
science, politics, news articles, academics |
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What are authoritarians like?
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4 July 2006 |
22:11 |
personality, politics, behavioral psychology |
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Mixing Memory has an excellent post today reviewing some recent empirical work on patriotism. The post discusses a paper by Schatz, Staub, and Lavine, in which the authors distinguish between ‘blind’ and ‘constructive’ patriotism, with the argument being (as you can imagine from the names) that one is constructive and the other is… less constructive. […]
Mixing Memory has an excellent post today reviewing some recent empirical work on patriotism. The post discusses a paper by Schatz, Staub, and Lavine, in which the authors distinguish between ‘blind’ and ‘constructive’ patriotism, with the argument being (as you can imagine from the names) that one is constructive and the other is… less constructive. […]