Several weeks ago I briefly discussed organisms that live unusually long lives. Among those were tortoises, such as Darwin’s Harriet, which can hit 150+. In March, I apparently missed the passing of Adwaita, a giant tortoise that lived to reportedly be 255 years of age. What is in their drinking water/Kool-Aid that allows them to live these relatively large lifespans? Perhaps it is Yoga or tobacco usage. Perhaps it is a lack of free-radicals or maybe organ regeneration akin to Salamanders’ limbs.
5/13/2006
Older than the French and American republics
Markets in dissertation writing
I am certain that this has been done before, but these guys seem that much more professional than your typical Geocities pseudo-intellectual hacks. AffordableDissertationWriting.com, while they claim to do all research without any sort of plagiarizing, using them without citing them would probably go down as an ethical no-no in just about any graduate committee. While it could be argued that there is an entire sector of the service economy that handles primary research for clients (e.g. Forrester, Gartner, IDC, Mercury Research and a million other consulting firms), the principal task involved in attaining a PhD is conducting some kind of original research which is then added to humanities collective corpus. Outsourcing and subcontracting this task kind of defeats that purpose.
On this topic of peer editing, one wonders when a group editing endeavor such as Wikipedia will be applied to writing a book or journal article. I suppose in some metaphorical sense it could be argued that bloggers are somehow organizing the web, with the search engines acting as surrogate indices, glossaries and appendices — but that organic process does not sound particularly slick from a marketing perspective. Note: Mises had some neat research ideas that could certainly be expanded on.