links for 2008-02-28

What should people be studying about community colleges?

"The gift in question was $1 million to Marshall's business school, from the BB&T Foundation [...] [T]he funds would support a lecture series and an upper level course that would focus on the principles of Atlas Shrugged "

It's a hard question.

"In a keynote address to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Professor Noel Sharkey, from the University's Department of Computer Science, will express his concerns that we are beginning to see the first steps towards an international robot arms

Thoughts from inside the Wonder Drug Factory.

"[T]he thermal conductivity of graphene... was found to be a whopping 5300 W/(m K) at room temperature. This is the highest known value of any solid -- 50% higher than carbon nanotubes and more than ten times greater than metals like copper and alumini

Weirdly brilliant.