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	<description>Raj Singh, MIT. Blog includes socio-political commentary, discussion of scientific results in general and linguistics in particular, and an academic page on my own formal work in linguistics.</description>
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		<title>Petition Against Media Consolidation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As expected, the FCC pushed through certain rules that will help big media obtain an even tighter grip on markets, burying independent voices even further. Congress has the power to ooverride these rules. Freepress has a petition to Congress, with the goal of obtaining 100,000 signatures. To sign this petition, and for more informatin, follow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singhr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=310123&amp;post=44&amp;subd=singhr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Semantics and Pragmatics Open Access Journal Up and Running</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The open-access journal &#8220;Semantics and Pragmatics&#8221; is up and running, and is accepting submissions for publication. The journal can be accessed here: http://semprag.org/ I am very excited about this development, which has been long overdue.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singhr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=310123&amp;post=43&amp;subd=singhr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Certification and Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Related to my last post, today&#8217;s Boston Globe ran a special op-ed contribution by Kumiko Makihara called &#8220;Japan&#8217;s mania for certification.&#8221; The piece informs us that certification tests for all kinds of purposes, professional and otherwise, are popping up everywhere in Japan, with ludicrous results. Makihara writes that &#8220;even the most obscure hobbies have their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singhr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=310123&amp;post=42&amp;subd=singhr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Competition for Grades and Miseducation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems to me that there is a fundamental problem with the way our educational systems are currently designed. The problem is that they are designed to promote competition for grades, and are not designed to educate people. Popular thinking has it that the best mechanism for educating people is competition for grades. Unfortunately, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singhr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=310123&amp;post=41&amp;subd=singhr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Times Select</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those with a university-affiliated email address can access the New York Times&#8217; &#8220;Times Select&#8221; offerings. Limiting access in the way they have is ridiculous, as some of their own op-ed contributors have noted. Alas, some have a way in. Simply go to http://www.nytimes.com/university to sign up.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singhr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=310123&amp;post=40&amp;subd=singhr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>But We Don&#8217;t Talk That Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the study of linguistics, some of the most profound discoveries about the nature of our linguistic capacities have been made by formulating sentences that we would, in the normal course of events, never say. Some of these are ungrammatical: &#8220;Who did John see Mary and?&#8221; Some are grammatical, but kind of weird: &#8220;What did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singhr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=310123&amp;post=39&amp;subd=singhr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Truthful Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why should people speak the truth? Why should they lie? Do people speak the truth? Is there such a thing as truth? The last question is rather pointless, and we&#8217;ll leave it to the post-modernists to grapple with. People do speak the truth, and they also lie. Do we have any understanding of what the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singhr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=310123&amp;post=38&amp;subd=singhr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Tides and Sinking Boats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NY Times Business section ran a story on its front page yesterday headlined &#8220;India Finds Its Economy on the Verge of Overheating.&#8221; Apparently, the poorest of Indian children have not been made aware of what the NY Times called &#8220;the country&#8217;s climb in living standards.&#8221; Around half of all children under three are clinically [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singhr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=310123&amp;post=37&amp;subd=singhr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Professor on Hunger Strike to End Racism at MIT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor James L. Sherley of the Division of Biological Engineering has undergone a hunger strike to protest the denial of his tenure and the handling of a formal complaint he filed two years ago. He has charged those involved with racism and with confilcts of interest. From the evidence available, it seems that there were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singhr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=310123&amp;post=36&amp;subd=singhr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Optimality and Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://singhr.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/on-optimality-and-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who works in the banking industry. We talked about wage distributions, (assuming, for the sake of discussion, that the existence of wages does not amount to a form of slavery), outsourcing, &#8220;globalization&#8221; (a highly misleading term), sweat shops, and many other issues. We disagreed on just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singhr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=310123&amp;post=35&amp;subd=singhr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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