Well, Bjorn and Francis also have in common the distinction of being among the most wrong academics of the last 100 years.
There's nothing wrong with academics having publicly stated political views: "There is an idea that academics should be experts rather than politicians, but what distinguishes academic research is its rigour and the ethical standards we follow.
In the past, the UK has been notorious for having ideas without successfully making money from them - probably a hangover from when making money somehow felt wrong for academics and researchers.
He retired in 1975, but he has yet to relax — there are just too many pesky, wrong-headed academics out there who think you can hang the vast historical brocade on an ideological or theoretical frame.
He retired in 1975, but he has yet to relax there are just too many pesky, wrong-headed academics out there who think you can hang the vast historical brocade on an ideological or theoretical frame.
But that trend is all wrong, argues US academic Matt Might in his work-life balance blog.
This used to happen whenever I read for a while in high school and college, so much so that I developed theories (yet to be proven wrong) that smart, academic types are very horny folks in general.
He explains that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with young academics who want to get on the career ladder starting out in teaching being paid by the hour.
Lastly it has been the very public debates over the rights and wrongs of an academic boycott that have drawn attention to the subservience of the Israeli universities to the state.
If academics boycotting other academics is wrong, it is wrong whether the boycotter is a virulent anti-Semite or someone whose heart is discrimination- free.
