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Academia vs. Business

Cambridge to study computer games

Computer games and comics are to be analysed alongside the time-honoured classics of children's literature at a new Cambridge University centre.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8500657.stm

2010-02-05

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Do scientists really need a PhD?

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7285/full/464007a.html

2010-03-04

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Top Ten Ways to Handle a "Smear Campaign"

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/02/22/on_grabbing_the_third_rail

2010-02-22

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JSTOR is a not–for–profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content.

http://www.jstor.org/

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The Shadow Scholar

http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329/

You've never heard of me, but there's a good chance that you've read some of my work. I'm a hired gun, a doctor of everything, an academic mercenary. My customers are your students. I promise you that. Somebody in your classroom uses a service that you can't detect, that you can't defend against, that you may not even know exists.