links for 2007-11-02

By drorzel on November 2, 2007.

Children's friendships matter in the scramble for secondary schools

"Until now, work in this area has had little emphasis on children's own experiences." Everything that's wrong with education research, in one short sentence.

(tags: education psychology society)
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: New Numbers on Underrepresented Faculty Members

Data!

(tags: gender race academia politics science)
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: A Satisfied Full-Time Faculty

We love our jobs

(tags: academia)
UK scientists working towards a redefinition of the kilogram

British and American measurements of the kilogram differ

(tags: mass kilogram physics science news)
AEI - Short Publications

Son of "Humorless Dorks vs. Halloween"

(tags: economics silly)
Framing Science

Everything that's wrong with political journalism, condensed into one graph and one table

(tags: journalism politics)

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