More Phenomenal random links to random stuff: life, the Universe and Everything
Phenomena – new blog group under National Geographic, including some long time scibloggers: The Loom, Not Exactly Rocket Science, Laelaps and Only Human, to begin with.
Substantive Advice to Admissions Committees – Or, why, all things being equal, we should prefer candidates from less prestigious institutions.
This is actually sensible – it is a “what have you done with what you were given” argument.
But, all things are very rarely equal… and no one ever got fired for buying IBM, at least not in the last millennium.