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An academic is someone whose career is in academia, which Wikipedia describes as "a collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole". This type is used to show information...
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Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian blog, journalist and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, Disney, and post-scarcity economics.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Trotskyist teachers, Doctorow was raised in an...
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| Harold Bloom |
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Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is a literary critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations stood at a low ebb, has constructed controversial theories of poetic influence, and advocates an aesthetic approach to literature against Feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, Post-modernist (Deconstructionists and Semioticians), and other methods of academic literary criticism. Bloom is currently a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University.
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Frank Newby (26 March 1926 – 10 May 2001) was one of the leading structural engineers of the 20th Century, working with such architects as Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, Eero Saarinen, Cedric Price, James Stirling, and the practice of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), and such engineers as Ove Arup and Felix Samuely.
Frank Newby was born in Barnsley on 26th March, 1926. He studied "mechanical sciences", now known as engineering, at Trinity College, Cambridge between 1943 and 1947. He...
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| Karl Gustav Cassel |
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Karl Gustav Cassel (20 October 1866 - 14 January 1945) was a Swedish economist and was professor of economics at Stockholm University.
Cassel's perspective on economic reality, and especially on the role of interest, was rooted in British neoclassicism and in the nascent Swedish schools. He is perhaps best know through John Maynard Keynes' article Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), in which he raised the idea of purchasing power parity. He was also a founding member of the Swedish school of...
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| Karen Ramey Burns | Topic |
Karen Ramey Burns is an American forensic anthropologist known for her work in international human rights and her specialty is the recovery and identification of human remains in criminal, historical, archaeological, and disaster-related circumstances. She has worked on a number of high-profile cases, including the Raboteau massacre and trial in Haiti, the Río Negro massacre in Guatemala, victims of genocide in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Amelia Earhart search in Kiribati, Fiji, and the Northern...
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