greenburger

I assure you that at a Research I university like Harvard, student evaluations have at best a pro-forma impact on tenureship, and probably salary as well. Faculty at Harvard are tenured and compensated on their abilities to publish high profile research and attract major grants, showing up to lectures is about all that is expected of them teaching-wise.

I'm floored by Facebook's response to being notified that potentially illegal child exchanges were being conducted on the site.

FTA:

'A similar forum on Facebook, Way Stations of Love, remains active. A Facebook spokeswoman says the page shows "that the Internet is a reflection of society, and people are using it for all kinds of communications and to tackle all sorts of problems, including very complicated issues such as this one."'

While I agree there are limits to the culpability of a company like Facebook, and they will never fully police all the activities of their billion plus users, this strikes me as very blasé. Surely they don't believe that anything and everything that occurs on the Internet is also appropriate to occur on Facebook. Or do they now believe that Facebook is the internet?

edit: typo

The cloture rules have changed many times over the years. A quick summary can be found on the US Senate webpage. However, Originally the filibuster was not unique to the Senate, House members could also filibuster, and there was no means of voting to end debate. Obviously this had to change if the House was to accomplish anything as it grew. One could well argue that it is time for the rules in the Senate to change again if it is to get anything done.

[1]: http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/...

Charles Darwin, his was both a scientific and cultural revolution. All modern biology is taught with evolution as the overarching explanatory framework.

I'm not sure this will be particularly successful. Looks like well over half of the content on the CNet homepage is iPhone related. That's the kinda of advertising only Apple seems to get, much better and a lot cheaper. The amount Samsung has to spend to overcome the "organic" Apple advantage must be rather large.

He's well known to fake publicity stunts, such as:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045848/Vladimir-Put...

Remember, he comes from the KGB, eventually rising to be the FSB director (the KGB successor).