Does City Shape Matter in Economic Growth?

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Rashid Faridi
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How To Deal With Criticism?

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Rashid Faridi

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Another week is here and as much as I want to be motivated I am still reeling from how short that weekend was. This post is inspired by something I read recently in fellow blogger Ella’s post that got me thinking. She shared the following quote in her post –

“Thetrouble withmost ofusis that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved bycriticism.” –Norman Vincent Peale

Criticism and me

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The quote got me thinking about how badly I personally take criticism. I’ve grown up with parents who pushed me to always be the best and in the process often criticized me. While I am not a fan of their parenting style, I appreciate that they did this in their own funny way to keep me motivated. But owing to a history of having so often been…

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Peer Review Plus

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Rashid Faridi

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Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach

A Modest Proposal For Improving Peer Review

Abstract.

A proposal is made for the design of a specific type of post-publication peer review.

Background

In 2006, the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine published a widely cited paper (960 citations) by Richard Smith entitled ?Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals?. In it he noted the following problems with the peer-review system.

? There is no clear definition of ?peer-review?, nor any standardization of protocols.

He described this lack of a definition as follows:

?What is clear is that the forms of peer review are protean. Probably the systems of every journal and every grant giving body are different in at least some detail; and some systems are very different. There may even be some journals using the following classic system.

The editor looks at the title of…

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Mark G.E. Kelly, Normal Now: Individualism as Conformity – Polity, March 2022

Posted on April 15, 2022 by Rashid Faridi

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Mark G.E. Kelly, Normal Now: Individualism as Conformity – Polity, March 2022

This is a book about what we consider normal. It details how the very concept of normality emerged in the modern era, and how it has changed over the centuries.

By the mid-twentieth century, the expansion of norms across various areas of human endeavour generated a governing normative order in Western societies. Normality was defined as conformity with a narrow model of conventional human behaviour. However, this model has since been displaced by an anti-conformism, in which normality is defined as absolute self-fulfilment, defying older restrictions on our behaviour. Paradoxically, narcissistic individualism and rebellion against conformity have become compulsory.

Normal Now explores in detail how this new normative order plays out today in the arenas of politics, health, and sex and sexuality. In all these areas, the uncompromising perfectionism of our norms of self-expression leads to increasingly deep-seated…

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