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Obviously what’s changed in the meantime is how much this has become a buyer’s market (and thus, an arms race…
I have done this (used the writing sample as the job talk material) as a junior candidate in the Uk,…
I did it both ways: job talk/job paper, job talk/not job paper. Got offers when the job talk was the…
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. The garden frescoes from the villa belonging to Livia (wife of emperor Augustus) are a miracle,…
I am on the hiring side of things. I think the inverse argument holds as well–if the candidate has a…
Capuchin Crypt: A crypt decorated with the bones of 3,000+ Capuchin friars. So metal.
It seems to me one can say the readiness potential or this or that antecedent correlated brain signature is not…
It appears so. But where are the editors of the law reviews at Chicago and Berkeley? Are they signalling: "Wordy authors, who can’t get to the point: submit to us!" And 70 pages? Why not shoot for 30-40?
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