Archive for March, 2009

31
Mar

AMS Graduate Student Blog

Once I tried to motivate a well-established scholar to set up a blog to make his website more interactive. He said, “Blog is really the thing for your generation.”
I tend to disagree with him. But it is indeed the case that the new generation would not wait long to set up their blogs. See an [...]

26
Mar

Why Youtube is blocked in China agian?

This BBC news article says it is about a video, and I find it here:
http://media.phayul.com/?av_id=147&av_links_id=323
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiZL9zvQ3Sc
Speechless.
When you are blocking information sources without a good reason, we tend to think you are hiding the truth.

24
Mar

Will the Geithner Plan Save USA?

I became interested in the issues related to the global economic crisis because the impact to people’s lives is tremendous. Yesterday, the USA Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled the public-private plan, which is to buy up to $2 trillion in toxic assets that are weighing down the USA banks.It is very intersting to see that [...]

12
Mar

The Biggest PhD positions AD

Update: Well the record is updated by this ad, as of 21st March 2009,
[LOGIC] 20 PhD student grants (3y) for the a.r.t.e.s. research school in philosophy, Köln (Germany)