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American education, parody version
This is what American education now feels like
Nonlinear Thinking: Robot Run Warehouses
Here’s an interesting video clip that reinforces our view that almost all new innovation and technology is labor saving/destroying and that U.S. unemployment is much more structural than most perceive (click here to view video). Even the military, with the advent of drones and robots, is moving to a smaller “boots on the ground” force
Investor: I have an MBA and keep losing money; how can this be?
This is pretty funny. (Hat tip Scott)
Employment Faces Grim Decade
The U.S. labor market will not return to full employment (defined as a 5% unemployment rate) by following a “business as usual” course. In conjunction with reforms to the U.S. education system to ensure that the workforce has the needed skills to succeed, progress in other areas must happen
Conan O’Brien’s Dartmouth Graduation Speech
Conan O’Brien was the commencement speaker at Dartmouth College on Sunday. Very cool. So how did Conan do? Apparently, he was hilarious. Take a look
Tiger Mothers and the History of the Chinese Examination System
By Rick Bookstaber In the Ming Dynasty, (1368 – 1644), China established an examination system as a merit-based approach for appointments to government office. There were three levels to the exams, with the final cut then coming through an examination administered by the Emperor himself. The subject matter of the exams was standardized beyond anything