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...historian Thomas Carlyle once claimed that "All true work is sacred." To which the philosopher John Stuart Mill responded: "Work ... is not a good in itself. There is nothing laudable in work for work's sake." Ever since, a debate has been raging in Western societies about the nature of toil - what it is and what it's worth. In Blood Sweat & Tears (Texere; 338 pages) Richard Donkin, a Financial Times writer on management topics, sets out to find some answers. The quest is not a complete success, but it does offer some comfort to today's overworked wage slaves...
According to Stuart Rojstaczer, a geology professor at Duke University, and inventor of the Rank Your College website, college rankings are just a scam—and rankyourcollege.com is no more arbitrary than any other ranking...
Loeb Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of the Center for Genomics Research Stuart L. Schreiber is another scientist who some consider as having bright prospects for advancement...
...movies' new ani-mavens can also ply their trickery in live-action films that mix animation with furry machines. In the wake of Dr. Dolittle and Stuart Little come DR. 2 and Cats & Dogs. Is the Dolittle sequel obvious and puerile? Hey, does a bear fart in the bathroom? The Eddie Murphy movie is like a wacky trip to the zoo; the laughs (such as they are) come from seeing how the computer can make animals do things--talk, dance, behave badly--that used to require a trainer with a sharp stick...
...Stuart Kauffman--philosopher, medical doctor, evolutionary biologist and entrepreneur--all these problems underscore a single phenomenon: complex, self-organizing systems continuously adapt to and change with their environments but do so in ways that are impossible to predict. It's a head scratcher. In a universe damned by entropy to gradual dissolution, things sure seem pretty well put together. So, how is it that evolving systems as diverse as the biosphere, your immune system or the global economy have grown from nothing into organizations of imponderable complexity...