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Here is how the internship scam works. It’s not about a “skills” gap. It’s about a morality gap. 1) Make higher education worthless by redefining “skill” as a specific corporate contribution. Tell young people they have no skills. 2) With “skill” irrelevant, require experience. Make internship sole path to experience. Make internships unpaid, locking out…
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The Barbie Effect
The Barbie Effect “Psychologists Aurora Sherman of Oregon State University and Eileen Zurbriggen of the University of California, Santa Cruz enrolled 37 girls aged four to seven years in their study on “Effect of Barbie Play on Girls’ Career Cognitions.” Each girl was randomly assigned to play with either one of two types of Barbie…
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corwood: In 1948, John Cage joined the faculty of Black Mountain College, where he regularly worked on collaborations with Merce Cunningham. Around this time, he visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way that the walls, ceiling and floor will absorb all sounds made in…
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Beating the whiskey shortage
jkottke: If distillers can’t keep up with the current and growing worldwide demand for bourbon, we may have to turn to rum instead. You can buy some old-ass rum, which, after being distilled from molasses or sugar cane, has sat around in barrels for long periods of time, for relatively small sums of money: El…