Thursday, July 16, 2009

'Close the J Schools'

From the Huffington Post, a blistering commentary on the value of J schools, especially for graduate degrees. From the lead:

These kids are paying upwards of $70,000 (the cost of Columbia's J-School, including living expenses) for a ghost's chance of landing a job, at pitiful pay, in an industry that is rapidly collapsing. What's going to be the next hot field in graduate study? Blacksmithing? Bloodletting? Steamship design?

Monday, July 6, 2009

It sounded like a freight train

Video from freight train's "black box" camera of the tornado that struck northern Illinois Jan. 7, 2008. The tornado derails the train near Harvard.

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