Tag: life & news
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...
Turkey is paying for decades of divisive politics as it fights...
By Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University
When armed conflict becomes a fact of everyday life, and generations grow up knowing nothing else, imagining life in a...
‘Cloud first’ sounds like a breeze, but it’s not always smooth...
By Dan Jerker B. Svantesson
The Australian government’s all about the cloud, with the Attorney-General and Ministers for Finance and Communications announcing their “cloud first”...
Six wearables and apps to improve health and happiness
By Sue Thomas, Bournemouth University
The age of the wearable is fast upon us, and many of the new products we’re going to see in...
How myths and tabloids feed on anomalies in science
By Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University
UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do we actually mean by research and how does it help inform our understanding of...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
