Head of Flawed Effort to ID Missing Soldiers Loses Job
by Megan McCloskey ProPublica, Oct. 3, 2014, 10:32 a.m.
The longtime scientific director of the problem-ridden Pentagon agency charged with identifying the remains of service...
Our First Dive Into the New Open Payments System
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Sep. 30, 2014, 9:47 p.m.
The federal government unveiled data Tuesday detailing 4.4 million payments made to doctors and teaching hospitals...
Why climate ‘uncertainty’ is no excuse for doing nothing
By Richard Pancost, University of Bristol and Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol
Former environment minister Owen Paterson has called for the UK to scrap its...
A look behind UK’s impressive unemployment figures shows they’re not so dazzling
By Geraint Johnes, Lancaster University
Unemployment in the UK has fallen below two million for the first time in almost six years, latest figures from...
How Much of Your Data Would You Trade for a Free Cookie?
by Lois Beckett ProPublica, Oct. 1, 2014, 12 p.m.
This story was co-published with Mashable.
In a highly unscientific but delicious experiment last weekend, 380 New...
If learners live online, teachers and textbooks must follow them
By David White, University of the Arts London
Ten years after the launch of Facebook and eight years after the launch of Twitter, social media...
Boundaries of illegality blur as Hong Kong protests rumble on
By Surya Deva, City University Hong Kong
We often think of the distinction between legal and illegal as a matter of black and white –...
How social media transformed pro-Russian nostalgia into violence in Ukraine
By Ivan Kozachenko, University of Aberdeen
When Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, Victor Yanukovych, was ousted in late February, thousands of outraged and fearful people in southern...
