Why do so many PhDs fail at becoming full-time professors?

Answer: Fail? What makes you think that most Ph.​D.​s want to become professors.​.​.​ Long's Digest Top Stories For You Why do so many PhDs fail at becoming full-time professors? Richard Muller, Professor of Physics at Berkeley, co-founder of BerkeleyEarth-org Written Nov 20 Fail? What makes you think that most Ph.D.s want to become professors? Being a professor is not the highest goal in the world. I know many fabulous scientists who have no i...  Read More » Why do people remain homeless? Jillian McCoy Written Mar 29, 2018 In my college days, I had a fun-loving, wild, crazy friend with a heart of gold. He used to give money to the homeless whenever he could. One day, he passed a five dollar b...  Read More » How come during WWII, soldiers tended to carry their rifles in the field with the muzzle pointed up and today, they carry them with the muzzle pointed down? Art Clack, I read a lot. Updated Jan 20 In Vietnam they took our slings away. They wanted us to carry our weapons in our hands. WW2 was a conventional war with front lines and rear areas. If you see WW2 pictures o...  Read More » What is the most useless science/engineering degree? Joshua Gross, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at CSUMB Written Nov 19 Pfft. A bachelor's degree in computer science is a complete waste of time. I'm a CS professor, and took a grand total of one CS course as an undergraduate. You can complete...  Read More » Which programming language is Netflix coded in? How do I use that language? Bryan Williams, Software Engineer, BS (CS), MBA Written Nov 9 Besides the programming languages Netflix may happen to be coded in, what's more important from a technical standpoint are the architectures of their technologies. Netflix ...  Read More » Why do American car tyres last longer than European tyres? I've heard that American car tyres typically last 50k miles, maybe up to 75k, but British tyres typically last 10 to 30k miles. Or is it because us British have higher speed limits? Duncan Cairncross, Lived and worked in the UK, USA and NZ Updated May 23, 2018 Why do American car tyres last longer than European tyres? I've heard that American car tyres typically last 50k miles, maybe up to 75k, but British tyres typically last 10...  Read More » What innocent-seeming picture is actually heartbreaking? Mike Leary, Clinic owner in private practice Updated Mon My brother at about 2 1/2. This cute little boy ended up being rejected by my mother. Decades later I asked my mom what that was about and she said: "I don't know, when he g...  Read More » Why don't the musket era formations dodge by lying down when they see that the other side has loaded their guns and points at them, like how modern armies react to grenades? Mark Hoadley, studied Geology at The State University of New York at Buffalo Updated May 21 I am a Revolutionary War reenactor, so I am very familiar with 18th century military tactics and what it was like to use a musket in combat. The thing you need to keep in m...  Read More » If humans had a natural predator, what would it look like, how would it hunt, and what ability would it have to hunt humans? Laurence Cartwright Updated Nov 3 As I'm going to define it, for humans to have a 'true' natural predator, it would have to- Kill humans to consume their flesh Be responsible for the deaths of more than half ...  Read More » How do you live your best life? Matt Taylor, former Corporal at Royal Marines (1999-2009) Updated Nov 22 Three simple rules. Exercise. Kate Moss famously said that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. Now, I'm assuming that miserable bag of bones had never ate a burrito, but...  Read More »   Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive this type of email in the future, please unsubscribe.http://www.quora.com/