I Blame the Handheld Calculator
Lore Sjöberg

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/commentary/alttext/2007/03/72961

03.14.07 | 2:00 AMDon't you hate it when things get dumbed down? There was a time when you needed two years of ( Read more... )

Graying of US academia stirs debate
Some cite brilliance; others see lost opportunity in hiring
Marcella Bombardieri

December 27, 2006CAMBRIDGE -- This fall, professor Roy J. Glauber regaled a dozen Harvard freshmen with tales of his youth -- as an 18-year-old undergraduate helping to develop the atomic bomb on the Manhattan Project ( Read more... )