The Mind Is a Political Thing

A Mind is a Wonderful Thing To Waste: "Think Like a Commodity", become a CPA

Technical excess in accounting education has always been a source of discontent for educational reformers, however, two recent developments have rendered these deficiencies even more acute. First, intensified competition for traditional audit services has resulted in an increasingly inhospitable job market for accounting students. Second, predatory practices by educational, professional, and re...

Is the Internet a Thing?

N o, I'm not trying to apply the term " Inter-net of Things " recursively, though it would be fun to give the root domain file an IP address and have it be reachable. I'm just using a current colloquial expression to ask what the Internet actually is, and who might own it. I'm asking these questions because of the announcement that ICANN will move out of US Department of Commerce authority (and...

Legionella surveillance: political and social implications--a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

In this issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports an outbreak of travel-associated legionnaires disease (LD; 2 cases) and con-comitant Pontiac fever (PF)–like illness (22 cases) [1]. Legion-ella pneumophila serogroup 6 was isolated from a patient with confirmed LD and from a whirlpool spa at a hotel at which the patient had stayed....

Is Cooperation a Good Thing?

The Next Big Thing Scale Invariance in Political Science

‘Power laws’ suggest that events of a large magnitude will be rare, whilst small events will be much more common, and that a simple mathematical law relates ‘severity’ with frequency. We find that a wide variety of phenomena in political science are power law distributed. These empirical regularities are both unexpected and unexplained. More work on a general explanatory theory for these patter...