Random links
- As Online Courses Grow, Sites Offering Unauthorized Academic Help Get More Brazen
- "Plenty of Web sites offer to write students’ papers or complete their assignments for a fee. But they appear to be growing more aggressive in promising to get students good grades for no work; some even promise to take entire online courses for students."
- You Waste A Lot Of Time At Work
- "Just because you're at work doesn't mean you're getting work done. You're drowning in email, stuck in dead-end meetings, and constantly interrupted. When do you have time to do any real work? Don't worry. You're not alone." An infographic.
- Is Economic Growth Coming to an End?
- "How Robert Gordon Misreads the Data and What It Tells Us About the Dismal Science" - basically Roger Pilkie in this piece argues that there hasn't been the consistent downtrend in GDP-growth that a popular article this summer argued. He also argues that even social troubles as nasty as the black death didn't stop per-capita economic growth.
- Do Cold Feet Warn of Trouble Ahead? Premarital Uncertainty and Four-Year Marital Outcomes.
- "Are the doubts that people feel before marriage signs of impending difficulties or normative experiences that can be safely ignored? ... Doubts were reported by at least one partner in two thirds of couples. Women with premarital doubts had significantly higher 4-year divorce rates, even when controlling for concurrent marital satisfaction, the difficulty of their engagement, history of parental divorce, premarital cohabitation, and neuroticism. Among intact couples, men's and women's doubts predicted less satisfied marital trajectories. Premarital doubts appear to be common but not benign, suggesting that valid precursors of marital distress are evident during couples' engagements."