Sean Lawrence

There is an extraordinary "reproducibility crisis" in the sciences, particularly in biology, where most published papers fail to replicate. Most universities have massive bureaucracies that inhibit the translation of basic research into commercial adoption. The voting patterns of university professors are so one-sided that they look like the election results of North Korea. And on top of all of this, many universities explicitly engage in racial discrimination (mostly against whites and asians) that violates the civil rights laws of this country. Our universities could see the policies of the Trump administration as a necessary corrective to these problems, change their policies, and work with the administration to reform. Or, they could yell "fascism" at basic democratic accountability and drift further into irrelevance.

Why are electrical plan check fees nearly $20,000? Is the city designing my plans? - Nah, that's the engineer. Is the city responsible for my plans? - Nope, that's the engineer. Is the city liable for how I build from my plans? - Negative, that's the engineer. I pay an engineer who went to school, worked years as an apprentice, took licensing exams, maintains their own insurance... What in the world is the city charging these fees for?

✨ We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming SHIFA-ANA Workshop to be held at ANAMED, Istanbul! Titled “Death and Disease in Anatolia,” the workshop brings together scholars from across disciplines to explore the history of health, illness, and the body. 1/3

"Majors in nutrition, art history and philosophy all outperformed STEM fields when it comes to employment prospects."

i think this is gonna be more like the renaissance than the industrial revolution

This is why American and western students never get the rest of us; we think Rousseau is how you fight tanks, they think he is a “dead white man” and the true medium of struggle is some pop culture reference from six years ago