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...years, researchers have struggled to understand why so many women leave careers in science and engineering. Theories run the gamut, from family-unfriendly work schedules to innate differences between the genders. A new paper by McGill University economist Jennifer Hunt offers another explanation: women leave such jobs when they feel disgruntled about pay and the chance of promotion. In other words, they leave for the same reasons...
Ironically enough, such digitally-designed posters are easier to disseminate on paper than online. “Publicizing over Harvard email lists is tough, since there are pixel limits,” said Guo. To get around this, the CSA creates and sends posters through MailChimp, an account that allows users to send smaller posters—as well as headers, footers, fonts and other means of visually organizing information—over email lists...
Though that “absurd talk” may obscure any deeper meaning, the experience alone is bizarrely engaging. Characters merge and switch roles, slip without warning into gaudily staged dance routines, and ramble about six-foot moles and eating paper as the story follows Leah from traumatic childhood music lessons to the death of her husband, making all sorts of incomprehensible pit stops along...
...rare show of bipartisanship, the need for fundamental reform has united disparate factions of academia. In a 2005 paper entitled “Nonpartisan Social Security Reform Plan,” a trio of economists—including a former Bush economic advisor and a senior official in the Obama administration (Kennedy School Professor Jeff Liebman)—propose a plan to ensure the solvency of Social Security by increasing the retirement age, increasing the payroll tax cap, and, most importantly, offering personal retirement accounts that would allow workers to contribute into what is essentially a government-sponsored Individual...
...mounting. Even the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, a Kremlin-loyalist newspaper, ran an op-ed on Tuesday lamenting the government's inaction. "The shrapnel of rage is flying in every direction, not only against the killers - indeed, less against them - but against the leadership, which is not providing security," the paper said. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, head of the nationalist Liberal Democrats, agreed in televised remarks on Monday, saying that Russia must again "take under total control any region where the preparation of suicide bombers is possible." On Monday evening, the mourners who gathered for a vigil on Lubyanka Square, home...