London School of Economics

Can Kate Miltner Haz 'A' For Her LOLCats Dissertation?

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: LOL Cats, Thesis Project, Kate Miltner Thesis, College, London School of Economics, Kate Miltner, Kate Miltner Dissertation, Lolcats Dissertation, Lolcat, College Humor, Lolcats Thesis, Ceiling-Cat, College News

Whoever said LOLCats were mindless might haz the wrong idea, according to Kate Miltner, who wrote her London School of Economics masters dissertation ...

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A Feminist Treasure

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Goddess, Feminism, Travers, Piazza Navona, Rome, Julienne Travers, London School of Economics, Occupy, Bernini, Women News

Travers, instead, envisions not the deification of women in a prehistoric civilization, but a social structure in which no one is made into a divinity.

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Investigation Examines Gaddafi Son's London School Of Economics Admittance

Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Saif Al Islam Gaddafi London School of Economics, Lse, Howard Davies, Saif Al Islam Gaddafi, Gaddafi Lse, Gaddafi London School of Economics, London School of Economics, Woolf Report, World News

Britain's Foreign Office approached a professor at the prestigious University of Oxford to admit Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif Al-Islam as a student, The...

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How Smartphones Can Safeguard The Future Of Agriculture

Deborah Bassett | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Farming, Mobile Tehcnology, Karl Muth, Grameen, London School of Economics, Africa, Smartphones, Sustainable Agriculture, Deborah Bassett, Uganda, Bankers Without Borders, Poverty Alleviation, Impact News

Ugandan farmers can now access important information at their fingertips. Photo: Karl Muth What does mobile phone technology have to do with farmer...

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Black Women Are Not (Rated) Less Attractive!: Independent Analysis of the Add Health Dataset

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Black Women, Scott Barry Kaufman, Attractiveness, Representative Sample, Lse Spokesman, London School of Economics, Ethnicity, Add Health, Adolescents, Adulthood, Native American Women, Academic Freedom, Psychology Today, Race, Internal Investigation, Jelte Wicherts, Student Organization, African American Women, Firestorm, Controversial Conclusions, Evolutionary Psychology, Outrage, Empirical Findings, Satoshi Kanazawa, Psychologist, Style News

The low convergence of ratings finding suggests that in this very large and representative dataset, beauty is mostly in the eye of the beholder. What we are looking at here are simple ratings of attractiveness by interviewers whose tastes differ rather strongly.

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Gaddafi's Long Reach

Eric J. Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geopolitics, Europe, Libya, Economics, Gaddafi, Eu, Britain, Libya Uprising, London School of Economics, Libya Protests, Business News

To the nations of Europe that have come to rely on oil and petrodollars from Moammar Gaddafi's nation, the destruction of what could be called Libya Inc. is likely to be the most painful blow.

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Higher Education's Dirty Little Secret

Arvind Ganesan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Siemens AG, Lse, Lincoln University, Jennifer Douglas, London School of Economics, American University, Nigeria, University Funding, Bribes, Peter Odili, University, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Human Rights Watch, College, Siemens, Atiku Abubakar, College News

Western universities are undoubtedly under pressure to find financial support, but this does not mean they should allow abusive and corrupt foreign dictators, officials or their families launder their images in exchange for money.

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Between Gaddafi and Galliano: Ethics and Morality

Shai Baitel | Posted 05.25.2011

Given what was known before, the artists performing for the Gaddafis and Dior should have not have gotten involved with the two in the first place. It is convenient that they all distance themselves now.

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London School of Economics Investigates Gadaffi's Son Plagiarism Claims

BBC News | Katherine Sellgren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lse, Saif Al-Islam, Saif Al-Islam Plagiarism, LSE Gaddafi, Gaddafi, London School of Economics, Qaddafi, Qaddafi Son Plagiarism, LSE Gaddafi Son, Kadafi Son Plagiarism, Kadafi, Gaddafi Son Plagiarism, College News

The London School of Economics has confirmed it is investigating allegations that Colonel Gaddafi's son plagiarised his PhD thesis. Saif al-Islam stu...

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Gadhafi and the LSE: A Cautionary Tale

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

It was inevitable that the venerable London School of Economics would be rechristened the "Libyan School of Economics" the instant it embraced the financial largesse of the Gadhafi family.

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London School of Economics (LSE) Director Howard Davies on the Past, Present, and Future

Rahim Kanani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dfid, Religion, Business School, International Development, Climate Change, London School of Economics, Higher Education, Undergraduate Education, Lse, World News

Religion is clearly an important force in the contemporary world whether you believe in it or not, and therefore I think we need to try to integrate that better into our teaching.

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World's 10 Best Economic Performing Cities: 2010 Global MetroMonitor (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, London School of Economics, Global MetroMonitor, Austin Texas, Slidepollajax, Istanbul, Recession, Washington DC, Austin, Brookings Institution, New York City, Best Economic Performing Cities, City Economies, World News

As they prepare to ring in 2011, Istanbul's residents have an extra special reason to celebrate, as the Turkish city was named the world's best-perfor...

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Nobel Prize In Economics 2010

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nobel Prize in Economics, Nobel Prize in Economics 2010, Economics Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winners, Books by Nobel Prize Winners, Nobel Prize Winnders Books, Slidepollajax, London School of Economics, Mortensen, Pissarides, Pisarides, Diamond, Market Friction, Mit, Books News

The 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Peter Diamond of MIT, Dale Mortensen of Northweste...

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Pakistan Taliban Armed, Trained By Government Spy Agency

AP | SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan, Taliban, Pakistan Taliban, Kabul, Inter-Services Intelligence, Isi, London School of Economics, Nato, Afpak, World News

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's main spy agency continues to arm and train the Taliban and is even represented on the group's leadership council despite ...

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Useful Idiots

David Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Left-Wing Extremism, Middle East, Islamic-University-of-Gaza, London School of Economics, World News

When I recently heard that The London School of Economics' student union voted to pair the institution with the Islamic University of Gaza -- which was established by the founder of Hamas -- I was speechless.

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Buiter At Citigroup As Chief Economist

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Willem Buiter, London School of Economics, Buiter, Business News

Outspoken economist Willem Buiter, a professor at the London School of Economics and consultant to Goldman Sachs, has accepted a position as Chief Eco...

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Intellectual Benefits, Emotional Costs: The Value of Attending the World's Best Universities

Alexander Dresner | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: University, College, London School of Economics, Healthy Living News

Are the benefits of being on life's fast track worth the costs?

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Iceland Must Renegotiate

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Britain, Netherlands, Iceland Economic Crisis, European Union, Iceland Global Economic Crisis, Iceland Economy Collapse, Iceland, Iceland Bankrupt, Iceland Banks, Iceland Economy, Iceland National Bankruptcy, London School of Economics, Iceland Financial Crisis, Iceland Bank Crisis, World News

What we need now is for our government to stand up for us the way the British and Dutch governments have stood up for their citizens, and to reach an arrangement that is equitable for all.

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Why Does Abiotic Oil Theory Ignite Peak Oil Theorists' Fulminations??

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: M.I.T., London School of Economics, A.a.P.G., Peak Oil, Oil, Russian-Ukrainian Theory of Abiotic Petroleum, V.A. Krayushkin, Abiotic Oil, Peak Oil Theory, Business News

Clearly something is afoot in the attempt to quash any and all discussion of the "Abiotic Oil Theory."

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