Since we talked recently about university endowments, and gifts from alumni and philanthropists, let's start with the news that Tufts University received a 100 million dollar donation from Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay. But the 'gift' comes with some interesting conditions. Microfinance, eBay and Tufts: it's a pretty heady combination!
Over at Pharyngula, there is a detailed post about vagina in mammals, and how the process of evolution led to it. Pretty interesting stuff.
Slashdot has a discussion on a German IT company (called Nutzwerk Ltd.) has made "cheerfulness a contractual obligation, advising those who don't measure up to the prescribed level of jollity in the morning to stay at home until they cheer up".
Microfinance, eBay, Tufts, and Drezner!
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ReplyDeleteTbanks, Anand! In fact, I planned to include the Drezner stuff in this very post, but when it became too long, I just took the longest part and made it a separate post.