Why I Hate College Sports

This sums it up nicely.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-ncaa-evil.html

The money should flow into the school and go to the things the school is DESIGNED TO DO. Foster research, educate the student body, provide scientific benefit flow to the community.

Instead... it's a racket where a select few rake off the lion's share of the money and even the privileged athletes involved seldom come out of it ahead for their effort. No matter the four years they may be heroes astride the campus, in the final analysis 3/4 of of them are undereducated, useless failures.

Thanks for the memories?

Just get rid of it all.

This Makes So Much More Sense

http://www.physorg.com/news152817247.html

 Metrics that try to elaborate on more details about drinking during
pregnancy. Note the bit about how "just volume" measurements aren't
enough.

 I've always felt the rabid reactions to studies that suggest standing
NEAR a bottle of wine while pregnant will cause your embryo to explode
were fed by the complete lack of nuance. The truth is always more
gray.

Physics Breakthrough at UT Austin

http://www.physorg.com/news152284917.html

 Do NOT tell your mother!

 I did look at the UT Austin website for this department. To be
perfectly honest the initial impression I got was not favourable.
Firstly, the graduate program links go to a central one for the whole
physics department, which is just scads of legalese and requirements.
Nothing about the actual interaction with an adviser that most places
say is critical.

 Plus the web page for fusion department is VERY mickey-mouse.

 But... there is something to be said for graduate school in Austin.
Fusion research that is actually on the verge of doing something
useful instead of "any decade now". I will have to consider it
seriously as part of the short list of schools, just based on the
location.

Mix Formula with Juice?

http://www.physorg.com/news150461470.html

 I confess I don't get this one.

 1) Who keeps formula at 25C unless the baby is actively drinking it?

 2) Who mixes it with milk instead of water?

 3) What do these bacteria DO if the baby is infected?

 I'm embroiled in a "test" right now but my brain jumped to the
(probably wrong) conclusion that maybe a simple change will stop our
next kid from being so impossible to put to bed at 3mo - 6mo of age.

 Pffft... yeah right.