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WTH would anyone bother with getting a doctorate in Liberal Arts? - Chronicle of Higher Education (via Brainiac)

Not much there in the way of job prospects even in good times but usually always lots and lots of student loan debt. I'm not sure that I'd go to college at all if I were a new high-school grad right now. At least this guy is willing to say so. Not that it'll help that much. Next to being a federal judge or a priest who else gets lifetime tenure? Nice work if you can get it though.

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A college education may not be worth as much as you think. - Wall Street Journal
A collection of media star's letters to the Unabomber requesting interviews- The Smoking Gun
Are radical environmentalists wackos, terrorists, or prophets? - AlterNet
Lancet retracts 1998 article linking vaccine to autism. - Toronto Globe & Mail
Chomsky as Hugo Chavez's Clown - Anarchist Library (El Libertario #51, 2009)
Whatever Noam Chomsky really is remains unclear, but what he isn't is an anarchist.
Unusual Asteroid Tail Implies Powerful Collision - Astronomy Picture of the Day (02-03-10)
Draw! The neuroscience behind Hollywood shoot-outs - New Scientist
Neurologically, survival-based reaction is faster than a deliberate think-aim-shoot cycle.