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William McGurn's " Sex and the College Dean " Main Street, April 26 illustrates the naiveté with which non-academics criticize the academic environment.
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I was one of the few non-academics among more than 10,000 participants dashing from venue to venue in downtown San Francisco, clutching their Starbucks cups and AAR tote bags.
Philip Goldberg: At American Academy of Religion Conference, Dharmic Religions Have A Bigger Place Philip Goldberg 2011
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I forget, do non-academics do things like learning R? trackback
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All of this is a mathematical minefield for non-academics, albeit a diverting one.
Wimbledon 2011: John Isner and Nicolas Mahut's mathematical minefield 2011
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Of course, all libertarianism means to most of the non-academics is the right to smoke pot.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarian Critiques of AZ Immigration Law 2010
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But she is excited at the prospect of non-academics getting stuck into philosophy.
Malmesbury bids to become UK's first 'philosophy town' Steven Morris 2010
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I suspect that in some ways academics are even more strongly motivated to hold irrational statist beliefs than are many non-academics.
Of Markets and Ideas, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The Oxford Experience, a residential summer program, is designed for non-academics who want to spend a week learning about say the Bronte sisters or the Royal tombs of Egypt while hanging out in the city Oscar Wilde, one of the university's many famous students called, "the most beautiful thing in England."
Pam Grout: Studying At Oxford Is A Great Excuse To Visit Oxford Pam Grout 2012
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Well mostly theylooked the same, because when Steve McIntyre was told that some of the metereological data was not available to non-academics because of commercial licencing agreements, he threw a hissy fit and told the lunatics that follow his blog to fire off FOI requests at the CRU.
Serendipity: What has software engineering got to do with climate change? - Part 2 2010
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Academics actually have to spend more time with one another than non-academics think (smile).
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