Google Maps was launched on this day – February 8 – in 2005.
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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Some scholars had tried to raise alarms before. In 2019, Dennis Tourish, a professor at the University of Sussex Business School, published a book titled Management Studies in Crisis: Fraud, Deception and Meaningless Research. He cites a study finding that more than a third of surveyed editors at management journals say they’ve encountered fabricated or falsified data.
~ Daniel Engber
via The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
published in The Atlantic on November 19, 2024
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Every trouble in life is a joke compared to madness.
~ Walter Bagehot
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No jealousy is comparable to professional jealousy.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Facebook was launched
on this day in 2004
Facebook was launched on this day – February 4 – in 2004. During its first days of operation, Facebook was only available to Harvard students.
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“If every dog must have his day, it follows that every cat must have her night.”
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years.
~ Adam Grant
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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History is experimental politics.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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