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...first days in the other Cambridge, I went to morning tea with some people in the lab. As we sat down with our drinks and snacks, the conversation drifted to comparisons between Harvard and Cambridge. A postdoc offhandedly commented that a friend of hers, a graduate student from America, knew less chemistry than the typical British undergrad because American students spend so much time taking classes unrelated to their major. That mild complaint sums up the American “liberal arts education” belief that a broad education is beneficial to the development of the student...
Here, 15 resident postdoc fellows inhabit plush residences, dine on fresh gourmet food at an antique table and amble across acres of well-groomed Italian gardens. (Five full-time gardeners, provided by Harvard, tend to the century-old landscape.) A staffer at the villa explains that visitors cannot see the library for fear of disturbing the scholars who are “hard at work,” somehow escaping the temptation to pluck lemons from the villa’s trees in the sunny Tuscan weather. The massive library collection at their disposal seems at least as tempting?...
...They Leave Inadequate resources, including poor facilities and low pay Stifling bureaucracy, especially in France and Germany , hurts efficiency Better career opportunities abroad. Europeans fill academic postdoc jobs that Americans shun in favor of industry What May Lure Them Back Higher funding. The European Commission is spending €17.5 billion onR and D from 2002 through 2006 More meritocracy, replacing the traditional hierarchical model Stronger pan-E.U. networks, especially through a European Research Council
...best business and technology stories on the net. Virginia Postrel’s The Scene has made the author and speaker, who is a frequent critic of irrational economic policy like the Bush steel tariffs, one of the most influential libertarians in the country. At Harvard, biology postdoc Charles Murtaugh runs a blog offering conservative viewpoints on developments ranging from science to politics to culture. And Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, vaulted to instant influence last October when he set up his Instapundit blog, which is updated almost frenetically on a range of political issues...
Kismet is the creation of Cynthia Breazeal, a postdoc in the Humanoid Robotics Group at M.I.T. Breazeal has studied for years under Rodney Brooks, perhaps the leading figure in the world of robotics. Breazeal got the idea for Kismet when she was working with Cog, another robot in Brooks' lab that was built to have the physical capacities of a human infant. Cog has a torso, a head and arms, and it can engage in simple tasks like turning a crank or playing with a slinky. Cog is physically gifted but completely lacking in social skills...