Tag: life and news
Stand by your Maine: country music’s Northern roots
By Clifford Murphy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
This past June, radio conglomerate Clear Channel (now known as iHeartRadio) announced it was converting Boston’s 101.7...
Absentee voting doesn’t increase turnout and leads to more mistakes
By Thad Hall, University of Utah
Although the midterms are typically referred to as federal elections, there is no federal entity that governs the conduct...
How tests and wrong answers help us remember what we learn
By Nate Kornell, Williams College
Teachers give tests to find out what their students know. But tests do a lot more than that and can...
Most disappointing headline ever (No, chocolate will not improve your memory)
By Ian Musgrave
This morning I woke to the most disappointing headline ever. “A Bite to Remember? Chocolate Is Shown to Aid Memory” was prominent...
Universities may seek more EU students once controls lifted
By Gemma Ware, The Conversation
Plans to remove controls on the number of students in England from autumn 2015 could see more universities turning to...
Is big data heading for its ‘horsemeat moment’?
By Duncan Shaw, University of Nottingham
There have been so many leaks, hacks and scares based on misuse or misappropriation of personal data that any...
Colorado curriculum kerfuffle showed activism can beat vested interests
By Mark Paige, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Students in Jefferson County, Colorado, popularly known as JeffCo, have learned an important civics lesson about their power...
Crowdsourcing competitions often hijacked: study
By Charis Palmer, The Conversation
Crowdsourcing competitions, popular with companies seeking to tap into groups of knowledge, are often diminished by malicious behaviour, according to...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
