Some Ivy League students are starting to agree with the sentiment after watching so many of their peers head off to work in consulting and finance after graduation. From All Things Considered’s Stopping the ‘Brain Drain’ of the U.S. Economy…
Student protesters recently got into a Goldman Sachs recruitment session at Princeton University to tell student attendees they were listening to a “carefully crafted recruitment pitch” and that they could “do better for society.” Similar protests have been held at Harvard University, and at Stanford University, where Teryn Norris was a student. …
“The problem is that when you’ve got 20 to 30 percent of some of the top talent in this country going into a sector that is not necessarily contributing to economic and social productivity,” he says. “That’s a problem for the country at large and it’s something that we should all be concerned about.”
Economist Paul Kedrosky agrees, except that we’re about two decades late in getting concerned. He believes the current financial morass is the work of a long line of bright minds who decided to spin their wheels in the name of money, as opposed to areas like science, engineering and mathematics, a.k.a. the subjects many of them actually studied in school…
When you boil down a lot of online games, you are basically being rewarded for clicking the screen over and over again. Not that there is anything wrong with it necessarily, so long as you know what you are doing. The people making the games know.
The unknown forces behind Click Your Life Away know too, but were kind enough to spare you the cute design, shallow story lines and incessant baiting to buy-in. The object here is to click in the box, and Ape Con Myth wants to take you on!
The contest? Click as many times as you can. The stakes? Whoever is in the lead Friday, February 10th at 5pm PST wins a free Ape Con Myth t-shirt. Contest entry will be tracked in the comments, so please include your email and tell us your username* if you want to win. ACM has started a new account for the occasion, so don’t worry, you’re not already 5,000 clicks behind.
WARNING: Refresh the page if you let it sit for a while!!! It WILL have logged you out, but pretends to still be keeping score. Otherwise, it’s as simple as it goes. Good luck!
[*Work "ape" into your username for non-redeemable style points.]
If you’re already heard the song or just want more, check out the Strawberry Time Lapse below. Animal Collective just headed back into the studio and to get us in the mood shared an array of glimpses from their time recording Strawberry Jam.
Looking for something to track this month that doesn’t involve you eating better or exercising more?
Better understand your caffeinated ways with this DIY print from Column Five Media, on which you can paint the results using your coffee. If your wallet is light (and your eyes are good), you can try working with this preview image and check out their blog for clues on what you can’t read.
Meanwhile, if you’re not the tracking type, Coop is here to let you in on a little secret that can make a difference every day of the year.
It’s easy to forget that humanity has been worried about the prospect of robots taking over for a while now. Below, we have an image from a 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions:
Of course, as we know, the Robotic Uprising of the mid-90′s worked out a little differently…
