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Peer-reviewed science – the time-honored system of scholars vetting scholars – faces challenges in the face of scandals such as Climategate. spiked looks at the flaws in this esoteric system...
Higher education is an industry like any other. There is no sheltered ivory tower rising above real world financial pressure: it requires funding and responds to cycles of supply and demand. That’s...
Just a quick note of farewell as I move on to Pittsburgh, departing Cambridge after 3 lovely years. Thanks to Cambridge for a great environment, and to you, authors and readers, for your responsiveness...
Angela Nickerson of travel blog The Gypsy’s Guide, and author of A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome posted a fine interview with Michelangelo author William Wallace. Eight Questions for William...
The Page 99 Test features Kristin Anderson’s Benign Bigotry today, and that page finds Anderson in a discussion of criminality and blame — that is, a subtle form of prejudice assuming that...
Thomas Banchoff and William Lindgren recently signed copies of their new edition of Flatland at the MAA Conference. For those unfamiliar, Flatland is a classic Victorian story by Edwin Abbott, chronicling...
Apologizing: a skill we could all use at some time or another. So when The Globe and Mail‘s Dakshana Bascaramurty wrote a “how to” on apologies, she interviewed I Was Wrong author Nick...
Preferential trade agreements have exploded in number over the past decade. But what do they really achieve? Mark Manger explains the ins and outs of international trade for Rorotoko, and manages to make...
via The New York Times, from Nicholas Kristof’s Our Politics May Be All in Our Head: We all know that liberals and conservatives are far apart on health care. But in the way their brains work? Even...
In his Huffington Post column, Whatley draws on the work of our own Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler to describe some dimensions of the Tea Party Movement: In Authoritarianism & Polarization in...
Via Foreign Affairs, Lucan Way author of Competitive Authoritarianism on Ukraine’s still-disputed election. In 2004, the world watched as the Orange Revolution unfolded in Ukraine, pitting an insurgent,...
The New York Times reports on a Penn-Wharton School study of what makes an article get shared most, or go “viral.” The results are surprising and refreshing. Apparently, you guys like science!...
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