Friday Reading

Thanks to the Science Careers Blog for calling attention to a discussion on Slashdot about how hirers can find superstars. The discussion focuses on programmers, but it’s relevant to academic hirers, too.
Check out Stanley Fish’s latest New York Times column, “Wanted: Someone Who Knows Nothing About the Job,” in which he chastises the University of Colorado for sacking the controversial ethnic-studies professor Ward Churchill over “doubts about his academic qualifications” while hiring the Republican oilman Bruce Benson, despite students’ and professors’ concerns about his lack of academic credentials.
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen reviews How Not to Look Old, by Charla Krupp, on Work in Progress.