December 2011
232 posts
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Let's Stop Celebrating College Dropouts ~ Akei |... →
“Recently it has become very fashionable to glorify college dropouts. The late Steve Jobs, perhaps the best business leader of our era, dropped out of Reed College. Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Michael Dell, and Larry Ellison? All dropouts. And as we all saw in The Social Network, pretty much the entire founding cohort of Facebook left Harvard.”
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Are Academic Libraries Too Big To Fail? (What if... →
“Leaving that aside—what about libraries? In the ARL world you hear conversations about branch libraries closing or merging all the time—it’s largely economics. But what about academic libraries in general? Specifically the concept of the central/main unified library? Is the library too big (valuable) of an organization to fail? I’m looking at the next 30 years and have to consider what...
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Tech center eyes more livelihood at 35 ~ Akei |... →
“Cunanan said the project is an off-shoot of TRC’s success in managing the Open Technology Business Incubator in University of the Philippines Diliman, which is jointly owned by the Philippine Economic Zone Authority and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the center’s parent-agency.”
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Surfdom ~ Akei | Higher Education →
“The internet has revolutionised humanities research. But has the development of ever-more sophisticated online resources freed up scholars to explore new ideas, or made them slaves to the digital machine? Matthew Reisz reports”
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PHL govt helping Pinoys facing drug charges in... →
“Earlier, Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara said the execution last week of a Filipino drug courier in China should spur the Philippine government to save some 576 Filipinos facing drug charges in other parts of the world.”
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Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of... →
“A reductive approach to social behaviour is bad news for democracy, James Garvey writes”
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Philippines seen to remain more resilient than... →
“British banking giant Standard Chartered sees the Philippines staying “more resilient” than other Asian economies in 2012 on the back of strong domestic demand and investment.”
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Philippines' Karla Carreon bags grand prize in... →
“They bested 19 other teams from Los Angeles and New York City in United States, Japan, Argentina, Peru, England, Poland, Vietnam, Indonesia, Czech Republic, China, Germany, France, Russia and Chile.”
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At a snail's pace: The Philippines and the... →
“Currently, the Philippines is behind by at least eight years and at most seventeen years in achieving this goal. This is not surprising, as the country has yet to address its problems in improving the educational system, particularly in primary education. Even the K+12 education reform program has yet to see the passage of its enabling bill that will formally extend the primary school cycle...
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Visit the Home for the Golden Gays ONLINE! →
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Filipinos urged to take post-grad courses to boost... →
“To, who is a senior Fellow at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and works in various Fortune 500 corporations as management adviser for over 25 years, said that if the Philippines will not capitalize on investing in more post-graduate programs, the country may lose global employment opportunities in the next few years. “
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Who Are the Top Technology Innovators in Higher... →
“Indulge us: You’ll like this one, and we need your help to compile it. The Chronicle plans to profile 10 of the top technology innovators in higher education. This is your chance to nominate them.”
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Is a Celebrity Invasion Turning Art Basel Miami... →
“Over the past decade, the Art Basel Miami Beach extravaganza — the art fair and the hundreds of events around it — has made a name for itself as a tropical Woodstock for the wealthy, a weeklong immersion in art, partying, and big spending. Its latest iteration ended yesterday, and it was as notable for what was missing — political art, photography, market confidence, and, by and large, free...
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Young Filipinos staying home instead of working... →
“They are lured by family ties, a sense of belonging, and - for many - a feeling that they’re needed at home, to help fix the Philippines’ problems. “
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Locally developed app forewarned ‘Sendong’ fury ~... →
“The “iTyphoon” app, a typhoon-tracking app for mobile gadgets jointly produced by programmers from Ateneo de Naga University and the typhoon forecasting center of the Naga College Foundation, had released an advisory as early as 6 a.m. of Friday, Dec. 16, that the intensifying Sendong would be passing through Cagayan de Oro City in the evening of that day.”
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How Not to Measure Faculty Productivity ~ Akei |... →
“Measuring and managing faculty productivity has become one of the most significant and controversial policy issues in higher education, not only within universities but also within state governments.”
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University turns into evacuation center, with... →
“Tending to the needs of more than 2,000 families, the MSU-IIT evacuation center for victims of Tropical Storm “Sendong” began as a happy accident, springing from a single act of generosity that took on a life of its own.”
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Digital Narcotics May Be the Future of Drugs ~... →
“He cited research from the University of California, Berkeley where neuroscientists were able to replicate images people were seeing based on the brain patterns of activity. When combined with transcranial magnetic stimulation — which has been used to inhibit brain functions such as the ability to speak or remember — it opens up the possibility of electronically delivering targeted...
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'Trans-parency In The Workplace' Study Reveals... →
“Published in the December issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior, the study — cleverly titled “Trans-parency in the Workplace: How the Experiences of Transsexual Employees Can Be Improved” — is thought to be one of the first forms fo empirical research on the transgender experience in the workplace, according to one of its co-authors. A total of 88 transgender...
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Selected Video from the 2011 International Drug... →
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Another UP grad lands beauty title, this time as... →
“Imperial, a Communication Research major, now ranks herself among titleholders from UP who dominated the pageant world in 2011. Fine Arts student Danica Magpantay became the first Filipina to be proclaimed Ford Supermodel of the World early this year, while Architecture magna cum laude graduate Shamcey Supsup placed fourth in the Miss Universe pageant last September.”
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Getting to Zero: The Next Chapter of HIV ~ Akei |... →
“But with treatment now firmly being seen AS prevention there is an unprecedented momentum to test and treat people, not just for their own benefit but also in an attempt to alter the course of the HIV epidemic. “
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Nonprofit Journalism and the Need for Policy... →
“For decades, some of the best journalism in America has been produced by nonprofit news organizations. Consider, for example, National Public Radio, National Geographic, the Associated Press, Consumer Reports, the American Spectator, Mother Jones and the Center for Public Integrity.”
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Two Decades of Peace, Love, and Marijuana ~ Akei |... →
“Every August since 1991, Seattle Hempfest has shown what the world will be like when pot is legal.”
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Occupy Demands: Let's Radicalize Our Analysis of... →
“The demand for demands is an attempt to shoehorn the Occupy gatherings into conventional politics, to force the energy of these gatherings into a form that people in power recognize, so that they can roll out strategies to divert, co-opt, buy off, or - if those tactics fail - squash any challenge to business as usual.”
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White House to honor UP engineering grad ~ Akei |... →
“He taught at UP for over three years before moving to the United States to earn a master’s degree in geodetic science at Ohio State University.”
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The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers ~ Akei | Society →
“Foreign Policy presents a unique portrait of 2011’s global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them.”
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Being Gay in the 21st Century ~ Akei | LGBTIQ →
“”Being gay is just like being Swedish. It’s a little different, but in no important way.”“
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Scholar looks at 'dark side' of Pinoy emigration ~... →
“”The Vancouver Sun” said scholar Prod Laquian, a professor emeritus in human settlement planning, saw “definite dark clouds in Filipinos’ remittance generosity, which often sees even low-paid Filipino workers in Canada each sending home hundreds of dollars each month.”“
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Opening Opportunities in International Higher... →
“Access to higher education remains severely restricted throughout the developing world. Even though higher-education enrollments have tripled and even quadrupled in some regions, the gross enrollment ratio for the developing world population ages 20 to 24 is still half or even less than that of comparable participation rates in North America and Europe. From sub-Saharan Africa to South Asia...
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Heroin-Overdose-Halting Drug Saves 600 Lives in... →
“For the last eight years, the city’s Department of Public Health has been dealing a drug that can stop a heroin overdose in its tracks — and it appears to be working. The city has just ticked off its 600th life saved since it started doling out the drug in 2003.”
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If We End Corporate Personhood We Can Define the... →
“The prevalence of the corporation in America has led men of this generation to act, at times, as if the privilege of doing business in corporate form were inherent in the citizen; and has led them to accept the evils attendant upon the free and unrestricted use of the corporate mechanism as if these evils were the inescapable price of civilized life, and, hence, to be borne with...
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Power in Numbers: China Aims for High-Tech Primacy... →
“But China’s efforts at dominance are hardly without obstacles. The country has fallen far short on a decade-long commitment to build the world’s leading semiconductor industry, and it still imports a vast majority of microchips for the products it assembles. Its best chip factories are two to three generations behind world leaders like Intel, in the United States, and T.S.M.C., in Taiwan....
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SOUTH AFRICA: Universities must build winning... →
“South Africa is an ambitious country. All of the world’s leading nations reached their high-level standing because they were ambitious in the first instance, and acted on that ambition. History tells us that while ambition is essential, it also takes hard work, focus and dedication to succeed, whether it is economic, political or scientific achievement that is aspired to. For South...
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Books and Education for Peace ~ Akei | UP →
“For her awe-inspiring role in building libraries and countering the culture of guns with books and education in Mindanao, 17-year-old Arizza Ann Sahi Nocum recently received an award from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the National Library of the Philippines (NLP).”
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Is there such a thing as civic duty? And do we... →
“Should it be an offence not to register to vote? The government doesn’t think so, arguing that a sense of civic duty alone is enough to make people sign up. But what is civic duty? And do many of us actually feel it?”
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Urban ecology model 'needs to change' ~ Akei |... →
“The way researchers assess urban ecology needs to change in order to take into account the way modern cities are developing, a study suggests. “
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Govt to run new audit for state universities ~... →
“In an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of programs run at state universities, the Education and Culture Ministry will implement an audit for programs at state universities next year.”
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Massachusetts Transgender Equal Rights Bill Signed... →
“Massachusetts’ transgender community had a reason to feel extra celebratory this holiday weekend, as the state’s governor signed legislation Wednesday forbidding discrimination based on “gender identity” to anyone seeking housing, employment or post-secondary education. “
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The Future: 10 Questions ~ Akei | Society →
“These are, then, 10 questions about the future, which I present in no particular order of importance, and, in several cases, are clearly linked.”
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Seer of the mirror world ~ Akei | Innovation →
“David Gelernter, a pioneering computer scientist, foresaw the modern internet but thinks computers are still too hard to use”
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EUROPE: EU plans historic rise in research funding... →
“The European Commission has proposed an historic adjustment to its research and innovation policies with a view to stimulating economic growth and shoring up the competitiveness of the European Union. The plans include a EUR30 billion (US$40 billion) increase in funding and a 16-fold rise in the number of higher education students being supported in their training.”
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Post-Raid, Amsterdam's 'High Times' Cannabis Cup... →
“On Wednesday, Amsterdam police conducted a massive, 100-officer raid at the Cup’s venue, Borchland. Possession of marijuana has been decriminalized in the Netherlands, but according to tweets on the scene, from Dana Larsen, Director of the Vancouver Cannabis Dispensary Society, “Police officer told me they investigated yesterday, saw some booths giving out weed and breaking...
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Cablegate One Year Later: How WikiLeaks Has... →
“One year ago today, WikiLeaks started publishing a trove of over 250,000 leaked U.S. State Department cables, which have since formed the basis of reporting for newspapers around the globe. The publication has given the public a window into the inner workings of government at an unprecedented scale, and in the process, has transformed journalism in the digital age.”
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The Internet: Triumph of human evolution ~ Akei |... →
“The Web is more than just a powerful tool, it’s our greatest adaptation. An expert explains why”
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A New Kind of Public Funding ~ Akei | Higher... →
“But the most innovative feature might be one that students never see: how the universities are funded. Unlike other public campuses, neither is receiving direct funding from the state, and both received significant indirect investment from municipal governments and local residents. Whereas the main campuses fund about a quarter of their operations through state appropriations, a percentage...
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150 Years of Night ~ Akei | Partying →
“From the sumptuous society balls of the Gilded Age to the seedy after-hours drug dens of the ’70s and ’80s to the underground lounges of today, New York nightlife has always mixed danger with glamour. Join us on a nocturnal journey where high class meets low, and history begins after midnight.”