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Migration

An interactive map showing 2008 county-to-county migration in the US. For Coconino County, you get a lot of people moving to and from other cities with high tech, and a few hotspots such as Missoula that feed people into industry here. Coconino County Migration

Reality Distortion Field

Tim Ferriss has a piece on Bill Clinton's Reality Distortion Field. Enter Michael Ellsberg I’ve figured out the secret—or at least, a big secret—of Bill Clinton’s legendary charm and face-to-face persuasion. “I have a friend who has always despised Bill Clinton,” a person at

The Largest Employers of Physics PhDs

The Largest Employers of Physics PhDs

Via a discussion on the PhysicsForums, here is a list of the corporations that employ the most Physics PhDs. Industrial Physics Employers

Law Career Paths

A friend sends along the following information regarding lawyers. This may be true, but don't let that confuse you into believing that law grads are either bound for success or not. In fact, many highly successful students will intentionally end up on the lower side of the graph

How Salary Data Should Be Reported

How Salary Data Should Be Reported

Another interesting thread in the PhysicsForums. This one was a question about the salaries earned by PhD physicists. The poster seemed to be from Central Europe, the Czech Republic perhaps, and wanted to know whether physicists actually earned $90k on average. The consensus was yes, this information is basically accurate

Applied Philosophy

While participating in a discussion at the Physics Forums, I was struck by the value of an education in Thomism. The subject at hand was the value of applied science versus pure science. Since this is a subject of interest to me, I weighed in on the discussion. As I

Why Tim Walker Probably Will Not Finish His PhD

Tim Walker has a good sense of perspective on the academic goal he abandoned for greener pastures: What I Was Thinking When I Started From the time that I was a boy, I always assumed that I would be “Dr. Walker.” Through about the 8th or 9th grade, I thought