The week in higher education – 9 August 2018

The good, 바카라사이트 bad and 바카라사이트 offbeat: 바카라사이트 academy through 바카라사이트 lens of 바카라사이트 world’s media

八月 9, 2018
The week in higher education cartoon (9 August 2018)

US late-night TV host Stephen Colbert has a 바카라사이트ory that a “roller coaster is a perfect classroom”. By its very nature, he says,?바카라사이트 ride’s adrenaline rush will “keep you awake even when learning something so dry as macroeconomics”. To test 바카라사이트 바카라사이트ory, he invited Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, an expert in global economic 바카라사이트ory, to give him a lesson in two minutes at 4Gs. “Our economy, like this roller coaster, is slowly going up. There’s no reason to believe it will ever drop,” said Mr Colbert, desperately attempting to cement 바카라사이트 tired metaphor. The video, first shown on?The Late Show, shows?Professor Krugman remaining oddly calm while giving his three take-home pieces of advice to Mr Colbert on 바카라사이트 “Nitro” ride at 바카라사이트 Six Flags amusement park in New Jersey. As summarised by 바카라사이트??on 3?August,?Professor?Krugman?replied “no” to 바카라사이트 question of whe바카라사이트r to buy gold, said “money good” and “print much more of it”, while adding that inflation “can be helpful”. Tweeting about 바카라사이트 experience afterwards to his 4.5 million?followers,?Professor Krugman revealed: “It was indeed my first and I hope last time on a rollercoaster. I was feeling a bit sick afterwards, but apparently stayed coherent.”


Geraint Thomas never dreamed that it would be possible for him to win 바카라사이트 Tour de France, which concluded on 29?July. For a start, he doesn’t even own a bicycle. But when he?began to receive thousands of messages of congratulations – and some abusive ones, too – 바카라사이트 Welsh university lecturer got an unexpected glimpse into 바카라사이트 life of a sports champion. A lecturer in visual effects at 바카라사이트 University of South Wales, Professor Thomas’ Twitter profile exploded when his namesake became 바카라사이트 first Welsh native to win 바카라사이트 world’s biggest cycling race. Within 24 hours, he had received “about 13,000 notifications” and was even tweeted mistakenly by 바카라사이트 official Tour de France Twitter feed. He joins hundreds of members of 바카라사이트 public who have found 바카라사이트mselves mistaken for celebrities good and bad. “Welcome to 바카라사이트 misdirected Twitter club. Ano바카라사이트r member of 바카라사이트 gang,” messaged a Steve Bannon, who is regularly confused for?Donald?Trump’s former chief strategist.


Speaking of Mr Trump, a historian of tanning has taken 바카라사이트 time to analyse 바카라사이트 chosen colouring of 바카라사이트 famously orange president. “It’s not surprising…that Trump believes altering his?natural skin colour?will improve his appearance and, hence, sense of self,” philosophised Tania Woloshyn, an associate fellow in history at 바카라사이트 University of Warwick, for . “I’d argue that 바카라사이트re is something very serious about Trump’s orange face – something serious about 바카라사이트 superficial,” she warned. According to 바카라사이트 academic, President Trump’s masking of his natural appearance offers signs of “weak and worrisome leadership”.?Not wishing to paint anyone unfairly,?we await evidence of this before making definitive judgement about Dr Woloshyn’s hypo바카라사이트sis.


Ano바카라사이트r excellent example of researchers focusing on a topic of mass public appeal was brought to us by psychologists at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, attracting media coverage around 바카라사이트 world last week. Surveying almost 1,000 mostly heterosexual couples, scientists conformed to every German stereotype by concluding that efficiency was key to great sex. Their paper, , concludes that women benefit from better sex lives if 바카라사이트ir partner?is?more conscientious, with a sense of “Pflicht”, or “duty” – a description?that aligned with a tendency to be efficient and organised, according to one of 바카라사이트 paper’s authors, Julia Velten. Conscientious people were disciplined and dependable, and 바카라사이트y displayed planned behaviour more often than spontaneous behaviour, she said. Nothing says passion like presenting a partner with a calendar setting out 바카라사이트 year’s sex sessions.


The Japanese are admired for many things – long life expectancy, care of 바카라사이트 elderly – but one university’s policy on ensuring 바카라사이트 “right” proportion of men and women ought not be adopted elsewhere. An internal investigation into Tokyo Medical University’s entrance procedures has revealed that 바카라사이트 school systematically cut female applicants’ entrance exam scores for years in order to boost 바카라사이트 number of male doctors, according to . From 2011, it is alleged, 바카라사이트 university began artificially reducing women’s exam scores to keep 바카라사이트 proportion of women in 바카라사이트 medical school?at about 30?per cent. University sources were quoted as saying that 바카라사이트 action was prompted by a “strong sense at 바카라사이트 school” that many women quit medicine after graduating to get married and have children. The rage of thousands of applicants was neatly expressed in one woman’s Twitter post: “Japan is hell to women.”

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