Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
~ Dean Acheson
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Monthly Archives: January 2025
Robert Devereux was born
on this day in 1591
Robert Devereux – the English Parliamentarian and soldier – was born on this day – January 11, 1591 – in London – in what has then the Kingdom of England.
He was a graduate of both Eton College and Merton Collegeat Oxford University – where he earned an MA in 1605
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Campus Life at the
University of Texas at Austin
Campus Life at
Case Western Reserve University
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Anonymous surveys of various fields find that roughly 2 percent of scholars will admit to having fabricated, falsified, or modified data at least once in their career. But business-school psychology may be especially prone to misbehavior. For one thing, the field’s research standards are weaker than those for other psychologists. In response to the replication crisis, campus psychology departments have lately taken up a raft of methodological reforms.
~ Daniel Engber
via The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
published in The Atlantic on November 19, 2024
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Campus Life at the
University of California – Riverside
Five American Universities
to follow on LinkedIn
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Against foreign powers, a prince can defend himself with good weapons and good friends; if he has good weapons, he will never lack for good friends.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Campus Life at
Deakin University
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Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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