My god, I thought it would never happen, but it looks like “the Ramu Nickel-Cobalt mine is on”:http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=13911, or at least closer to being on. It will be interesting to see what happens to it. It’s particularly significant that Chinese investment is happening there. A portent of things to come, I’d say…
A new ‘viewpoints’ piece of mine has appeared at “Inside Higher Ed”:http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/10/24/golub. It’s based on an earlier “Savage Minds blog entry”:http://savageminds.org/2005/09/22/what-you-really-really-want/. Doing an op-ed piece about teaching and the state of the academy when you are as green as I am is, of course, a crazy and hubristic thing to do. But I’ll use the [...]