Breaking into the Academy: From the ?huh? file...

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As a fourth year doctoral candidate, in addition to having completed comprehensive examinations and prospectus and working on the dissertation, my thoughts are also turning towards the job market and securing that first academic position. This purpose of this blog is to chronicle the trials and tribulations of completing my Ph.D. and finding that first job.

Saturday, July 30, 2005

From the ?huh? file...

Earlier this month, I found the following entry at Slashdot...

Study Finds Value in Email Spam

By Zonk on better-than-the-porky-kind-anyway

Ant writes "According to a LiveScience story, a steady diet of email spam can be good for you. From the article: 'Researchers split a group of more than 2,100 Canadians into two groups. One group got e-mails that promoted healthy lifestyles, the other got none. "These were informative and motivational messages sent weekly for 12 weeks," explained study leader Ron Plotnikoff of the University of Alberta. The e-mails promoted the benefits of a good diet and physical activity. Those who were effectively spammed, as a group, saw their mean body mass index (BMI) go down, meaning it improved. BMI is a measure of body fat based on height and weight. Overall BMI rose for the control group, which did not get the emails.'"

Interesting what that little bit of inconvenience that we face everyday (some 20-30 message each day for me personally) may be doing for us in terms of benefits. Makes you wonder...

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