As Flow of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel the Sting
Colleges have cut programs amid a drop in international enrollment tied to several factors, including more restrictive immigration policies.
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"For years, American colleges had been staking their futures on continued growth in foreign students, and after the recession a decade ago, those students were a lifeline for colleges that had poured money into new buildings and amenities. In just the past six months, the University of Akron opened an international center in an existing building and hired 10 employees to work in international programming. The president, Matthew Wilson, said that students from India were reporting increased scrutiny of their visa applications, one of the reasons for a drop of about 200 international students.'
Posted on 2018-04-21T04:52:59+0000
Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30?
The period for making B.F.F.’s, the way you did in your teens or early 20s, is pretty much over. It’s time to resign yourself to situational adult friends.
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Posted on 2018-04-21T04:43:01+0000
Food Stall Serves Up A Social Experiment: White Customers Asked To Pay More
To highlight racial income disparity, a chef in New Orleans opened a food stall at which he asked whites to pay $30 and people of color to pay $12 for the same meal. How did it play out?
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Posted on 2018-04-21T04:40:00+0000
Toxic management cost an award-winning game studio its best developers
A shocking window into the $36 billion video game industry and how it can burn out its most valuable employees.
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Posted on 2018-04-21T04:38:29+0000
Quantitative Trading Summary – Headlands Technologies LLC Blog
Posted on August 3, 2017August 4, 2017 by Max Dama, Quantitative ResearcherQuantitative Trading Summary This summary is an attempt to shed some light on modern quantitative trading since there is limited information available for people who are not already in the industry. Hopefully this is useful f...
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"This summary is an attempt to shed some light on modern quantitative trading since there is limited information available for people who are not already in the industry"
Posted on 2018-04-19T04:53:28+0000
You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time – Elise Crull | Aeon Ideas
In the summer of 1935, the physicists Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger engaged in a rich, multifaceted and sometimes fretful correspondence about the implications of the new theory of quantum mechanics. The focus of their worry was what Schrö...
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" ‘One has the feeling that it is precisely the most important statements of the new theory that can really be squeezed into these Spanish boots – but only with difficulty.’"
Posted on 2018-04-19T04:45:45+0000
How poverty changes your mind-set
Understanding psychology may be key to addressing the problem
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Posted on 2018-04-19T04:34:25+0000
The Tipping Equation
At restaurants across America, servers calculate how far is too far, weighing harassing behavior against the tips they need to make a living wage.
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Posted on 2018-04-19T04:29:12+0000
Why do we work so hard?
Ryan Avent reckons that our jobs have become prisons from which we don’t want to escape
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Posted on 2018-04-19T04:27:00+0000
‘I was a teacher for 17 years - but I couldn’t read’
John Corcoran graduated from university and became a teacher for 17 years - but he had an extraordinary secret.