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Holy Saturday Edition Ruby Slippers Gabriel Rossman makes a persuasive case that social construction is real, but the concept is mostly used by people who don't understand it, and have no sense of proportion. How Does America "Reshore" Skills that have Disappeared? The first couple of

The STEM Crisis is a Myth

Robert Charette at IEEE Spectrum has a really good piece on the unreality of a shortage of workers with an education in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology [STEM]. Charette looks at all the different ways in which STEM jobs and STEM workers are counted. Different agencies count in different ways.

Joel Kotkin on Zuckerberg et al.

Joel Kotkin at his website NewGeography finds Mark Zuckerberg's immigration enthusiam as self-interested as I do: Shady 1%This bit is especially good: Outsource Manufacturing, Import Engineers Perversely, the small number of jobs—mostly clustered in Silicon Valley—created by tech companies has helped its moguls avoid public

Immigration and High-Skill Employment in the US

Immigration and High-Skill Employment in the US

I had been wanting to look into this subject, and lo, I find that someone else has already done it. Guestworkers in the High-Skill U.S. Labor Market. I've long been dubious that we don't have enough native-born STEM graduates in the US. My reasoning is

Two Good Articles

Two good articles came out in the last week. Ross Douthat exposes the anti-egalitarian heart of our top universities in the New York Times, and Dalliard defends g at Human Varieties. Nothing Douthat said came as a surprise to me, but I have been following this train of thought for

Amen Brother

Reading through the greatest hits on the website I got the article on Don't Be a Programmer from, I found this gem: Take the reactions to 4 Hour Workweek (which is, incidentally, a tonne of self-promotion and self-help book hucksterism concealing an ounce of solid productivity gold) Amen,

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

I'm a frequent visitor to the PhysicsForums career section, I try to give the advice I wish I had received when I was younger. I saw a really interesting post this week, Don't Call Yourself a Programmer. There is a lot of good stuff here. I