Academic Publishers Give Science the Business

Here’s a great overview of the business of publishing academic journals.  What a racket!

Think Twice about Grad School

The ‘market” for professors is pretty skimpy

today’s academic job market is a “market” in the sense that one stall selling fiddlehead ferns in the middle of a strip mall is a “farmer’s market.” In the place of actual jobs are adjunct positions: benefit-free, office-free academic servitude in which you will earn $18,000 a year for the rest of your life.

It is a bit better for us statisticians, but even there, the majority of jobs are in government, not academia.

Tip from the Instapundit.

Coming Back from the Dead

It may be in our immediate future, according to Dr Sam Parnia:

There are numerous studies that show that if you implement all the various resuscitation steps together you not only get a doubling of your survival rates but the people who come back are not brain damaged.

Bring in on.

Tip from the Instapundit.

Upscaling the Urban Chicken Movement

High-dollar hipsters crack me up.  Check out the $1300 chicken coop, along with authentic “found object” accessories.  All available at Williams-Sonoma (of course), who saw these all-day suckers coming a mile away.

Paperman

Who’d watch a black-and-white cartoon these days?  Everyone.

Tip from Kottke.

“…surely we have an obligation to try.”

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Tip from The Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential, via the Instapundit.

Gasahol is Genocide

American and European biofuel mandates and subsidies are starving the Guatemalan working class.

GUATEMALA CITY — In the tiny tortillerias of this city, people complain ceaselessly about the high price of corn. Just three years ago, one quetzal — about 15 cents — bought eight tortillas; today it buys only four. And eggs have tripled in price because chickens eat corn feed.

Brought to you by the same folks who would denounce the United Fruit Company.

Tip from the Knowledge Problem.

Update (14 January).  The mandates are hitting Americans in the pocketbook as well.  Tip from the Instapundit.