Tags: Academia
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Academic Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1 Billion
Threatened with prison in India
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Collegiate Porn Studies Journal Launched
Yes, studies will be peer reviewed
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Florida Professor Claims Boston Bombing Was “Mass Casualty Drill,” Also Thought Sandy Hook Shooting was Staged
Tenured, natch
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Harvard Conference Considers Whether Law Faculty Are Too Monolithically Liberal
May need to hire libertarians and conservatives for intellectual diversity
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Protests over University of Rochester Professor's Comments on Rape
Compared outrage at Steubenville rape case to outrage over people watching porn
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Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt Wins Zócalo Book Prize
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The Walking Dead vs. the Feds! Paul Cantor on TV's Zombie Apocalypse
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Is College "The Incubator of the Nanny State"? Nick Gillespie Talks with FIRE
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The Great School Purge
Wars on academic freedom, from the McCarthy era to the present.
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Scientist Fired for Allegedly Faking Wine Research Sues College
Says his civil rights were violated
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White House Responds (Finally) to Research Access Petition with a Yes
Administration will support making taxpayer-funded academic papers available to everybody a year after publication
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Columbia Science Professor Strips During Quantum Mechanics Lecture
Also used footage of 9/11, Osama bin Laden and Hitler and Lil Wayne's "Drop It Like It's Hot" in the bizarre lecture
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Aaron Swartz, the Feds, and Proportionate Responses to Illegal Downloading
How should the federal government have handled Swartz's behavior?
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Reddit Co-Founder, Open Info Activist Bullied by DOJ Commits Suicide
Faced federal charges for downloading academic journal records at MIT
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TED Talks Hit Billion-View Milestone
Markets for everything, no matter how pretentious
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Scholar Wants to Hunt Bigfoot with a Blimp
At least he wants to do it with private funding
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Study Finds Professors Moving Even Further Left
Soon they're going to loop all the way around and become far-right conservatives
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Are Presidential Debates Always a Waste of Time?
From body language to pretty faces, new research looks at what really matters in televised presidential debates.
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Really Good Reasons to Skip College: Q&A with Blake Boles
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Liberals Admit to Discriminating Against Conservative Academicians