In which we look at the job situation for different specializations, yet another dumb modest proposal to fix education, and a smackdown of NBA players who are ignorant of fashion history.
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- Physics and Physicists: Job Advertisements For Theorists and Experimentalists In Physics Today Apr/May 2012
Anyone reading my blog on the Problem in Pursuing To Be A Theorist would have read comments that disputed my claim that there are less job positions for theorists to practice what they want to do versus that of experimentalists. To make a check on how far off (or on) I was, I did a quick count on the job advertisements on the pages of Physics Today April and May 2012 issues. I look at each advertisement, categorize the job description into three categories: 1. Job looking only for experimentalists 2. Job looking only for theorists 3. Job that either has no clear description, or a job that either a theorist or experimentalist can do. This is often a position higher up in administration, i.e. director of a projects or lab, not something that a new PhD or Postdoc would qualify for. What I discovered was this distribution:
- The College Graduate as Collateral - NYTimes.com
Today in desperately stupid articles about education.
- Grantland Exclusive: Inventor of Eyeglasses Weighs In on LeBron-Westbrook Specs Debate - The Triangle Blog - Grantland
So. Glasses. Who invented them? Russell Westbrook? LeBron James? OR CARDINAL HUGH DE PROVENCE, SUBJECT OF THE FIRST PICTORIAL EVIDENCE OF A GUY WEARING GLASSES! THE FLOOR IS YOURS, HUGH!
Could you post an update about the new layout.
You have a great blog, but now too much of the content is hidden.
I'd like to know whether you'll be able to return to having more of your original post appear on the front page.
Specifically, can this be done with your "Links Dump." I would "drive by" regularly to check it. I found it always interesting because you cover a range of topics.
And, as I checked, I noticed other interesting posts, like the family photos and physics topics that deserved time reading.
If the number of views is important, since the change in format, I rarely look at the home page.