Unlucky Jim and the ghost in the academic machine
Picture a middle-aged man in a small, unlovely office. He’s a thinker, a writer, an intellectual: he’s an academic at a UK university. (That’s already cause for suspicion.) Let’s call him Jim. Jim’s...
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Why do we have these people? We see plenty of them; they’re always in the media. They talk, a lot. But what’s the point of academics? We know why we have universities and colleges. They’re safe...
View ArticleWork? What a silly idea
A study making headlines today in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology suggests that having a mentally demanding job before you retire is associated (in about 4000 Americans) with “higher...
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