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11/18/2008
Christmas Shopping? - For a limited time, Jorge will be taking signed book orders. You can also order the new 2009 PHD Calendar AND you get a free set of PHD Holiday cards with every order!

The new calendar looks great! Handsomely printed and meticulously designed by Jorge himself, it makes a great Holiday gift. Click here to order

(The calendar and cards will soon be available through the Printmojo store, so you can add shirts and mugs to the order).

11/10/2008
NMTech - PHD comes to New Mexico Tech this week! Come on by or tell your friends that go to this school!
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11/4/2008
ETH/OxSouImperial - PHD is back to Europe for talks in ETH, Oxford, Southampton and Imperial College London this week!
Come on by or tell your friends that go to these schools:

10/27/2008
Do you Tweet? - If you are on Twitter, you can now get automated notices when a new PHD comic is posted. Just follow us here.

10/22/2008
NY Times - Well, it's official. Paul Krugman writes an economics column for the NY Times, and now PHD comics has appeared in the NY Times economics online blog. We are therefore at the same level as Nobel Prize winners.

Update: John from UGA notes the irony of being linked to by the NY Times via Harvard's Greg Mankiw, who makes several million dollars a year on his introductory economics textbooks. Impressive!

10/1/2008
Gross - Another interesting comparison can be made between Grad Enrollment and the GDP (although in this case, it's harder to tell which one causes which).

9/30/2008
REGISTER TO VOTE - If you haven't done so already, please Register to Vote!


9/27/2008
New Research Shirt - As suggested by our readers, we present the new "Research (tool)" shirt, now available at our store:



 
 
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