Explainer: what is the maths behind an exam timetable?
By Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham
Sweaty-palmed and reciting facts over and over in their heads, the hordes of university and school students sitting down...
Dollars for Dudes: Almost No Women Among Medical Industry’s Top-Paid Speakers, Consultants
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Oct. 8, 2014, 11 a.m.
This story was co-published with The New York Times' The Upshot.
Few women are on the list...
Private Donors Supply Spy Gear to Cops
by Ali Winston and Darwin Bond Graham, Special to ProPublica, Oct. 13, 2014, 8 a.m.
In 2007, as it pushed to build a state-of-the-art surveillance...
Deadly Force, in Black and White
by Ryan Gabrielson, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Eric Sagara ProPublica, Oct. 10, 2014, 11:07 a.m.
Young black males in recent years were at a far...
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...
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 –...
$1.1 Billion in Drug, Device Payments to Doctors Not Included in New Federal Database
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Oct. 6, 2014, 6:02 p.m.
The federal government's new database of drug and device industry payments to doctors is even more...
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...
