Category: Professorship

Exploring the School Spying Scandal

There’s been a lot of interest in one of the cases I mentioned last week in which it was discovered that school officials were spying on kids and their families in their own homes by surreptitiously activating webcams on school-provided laptops.

Responsible Data-Driven Journalism

The Guardian’s DataBlog: If there’s a picture of more responsible journalism, I’ve never seen it. Now the only question that remains – where’s the American equivalent?

Journals of Negative Results

A new journal for unpublished results is starting up, making a grand total of 3 such journals across all academic fields.

No One Trusts Statistics

People don’t trust statistics, and by extension, experts. But they used to. What’s changed?

Quick Bits No. 2

Teens spend over 50 hours a week on the Internet, Chuck Norris controls Facebook, rickets are on the rise, and a grad student excused from comps due to test anxiety all this week.

Quick Bits #1

Seven bits of news, including Kia putting Facebook in your car, Barnes and Noble starting up a textbook rental program, and students are 600% more depressed than they were 70 years ago.