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...poker really lead into the mathematics of social interactions and economics.” GPSTS, he says, is “an effort to legitimate poker as an educational tool and strategy.” Nesson racked up more street cred by appearing on “The Colbert Report?? to talk about his fight to keep online poker legal. “Poker provides a whole strategic language that allows you to talk about strategy with people in a way that they understand,” the passionate professor says. “You learn...
...Mitchell Report??s depiction of Major League Baseball’s performace-enhancing drug problem confirmed all our worst fears about the sport, its players, and their records. Not only have some of baseball’s best players turned out to be its worst role models, but some of the sport’s greatest records have been forever tarnished. Baseball has been the scrutinized for years, much like professional cycling, but evidence of drug-related misconduct only came in smatterings. Jose Canseco, for example, the first professional baseball player to hit 40 home runs and steal...
...just vote for the party in the end.” Anyone who forwards the application to their Facebook friends is automatically entered in a competition with prizes including an iPod Touch and an all-expenses-paid trip for two to a taping of “The Colbert Report?? in New York. Zhu said the prizes attracted her as much as the cause. “The problem with the application is that they don’t really care who you invite as long as you invite a certain number, and what if you invite someone...
...understandable that they are looking for some kind of shortcut to make their choices simpler. If only there were some simple, reliable resource that could accurately determine with absolute certitude which schools are worth applying to, and which aren’t.Enter U.S. News and World Report??s College Rankings, the magazine’s cash cow. U.S. News has perfectly capitalized on the zeitgeist of today’s hyper-involved parents and their overachieving children, milking every cent from their anxiety. The idea is so powerful that the magazine has started rankings for pretty darn near...
...There was a conscious decision around the year 2000 to expand the tenured ranks.” Tenured or tenure-track professors make up 62 percent of the Faculty at Harvard. Though Harvard might claim to contradict the study’s trend, John W. Curtis, one of the report??s authors, said that universities like Harvard have a lot of teaching done by graduate students. “It’s becoming much more common for graduate students to become the sole instructor and the more of a shift in that direction, the more that grad...