The Lord of the Rings: an allegory of the PhD?

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Characters in this satire are purely fictional. No infringement of copyrights intended. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The story starts with Frodo:...

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Knowledge is to be shared; not horded. Tribute to Aaron Swartz.

After reading the following article by late Aaron Swartz, I had this thought. Lot of us doing our higher ed has access to many peer reviewed journals, and after what the world of which we are a part, did to this wonderful person, his ideas shall only...

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German PhD/ Testing Camscanner.

It has been a long time since my last post. phew.... how time flies! One frikking semester went just like that!I found a brochure from the German Academic service center (DAAD) lying around, regarding PhD in Germany. Since I remember many of my friends back home asking me about opportunities, and found lots of info on this thing, and I recently installed camscanner on my phone, but had not got a...

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