What the heck is going on with Florida State College at Jacksonville?
Relatively unnoticed in the national press has been a fairly vicious in-state back-and-forth between the leadership of Florida State College at Jacksonville and for-profit Keiser University. Here are some of the relevant stories: Emails spice up lawsuit over private colleges (Oct. 5) Short-seller Steve Eisman is in trouble with a for-profit university over this email […]
My idle thoughts on general relativity, economics, and schooling
So Paul Krugman finally saw his "maximum magnum opus," The Theory of Interstellar Trade published by a journal. As long as you understand standard microeconomics equations and the Lorentz time-dilation formula, you'll… oh, wait. You don't really need the Lorentz formulas for this one. Where he goofed was in the omission of general relativity with the very […]