By Matthew Scribner. But some issues need to be approached tactfully and professionally. More...
3 avril 2016
3 avril 2016
Students keen for career-related opportunities while at school, survey says
By Nicholas Dion. Respondents also offer suggestions on how their institutions could better aid their transition into the workforce. More...
3 avril 2016
Students at Emory Protest ‘Trump’ Chalk Markings
By Courtney Kueppers. Using white and yellow chalk, someone scrawled “Trump,” “Vote Trump,” and “Trump 2016″ around Emory University’s Atlanta campus on Monday. Some students responded by holding a protest of Donald J. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, which prompted the university president, James W. Wagner, to issue a statement on the “unexpected chalkings”. More...3 avril 2016
The Strangest Ways Students Pay Tribute to Their Favorite Professors
By Courtney Kueppers. In showing respect for their favorite professors, today’s college students have ventured well beyond the proverbial apple. More...
3 avril 2016
Curing the Blue Light Blues
By Natalie Houston. As Jason pointed out recently, many of us are suffering from sleep debt — and that’s not only the amount of sleep we know we’re missing, but the additional amount of sleep we would need to move past our usual level of accustomed tiredness to something closer to optimal function. Read more...3 avril 2016
Hidden Scholarship: Achievements Academics Don’t Report
By Maha Bali. Have you ever thought of all the really important effort and work we do as academics that we actually never get an opportunity to report on as achievements. Read more...3 avril 2016
Go to Bed: Sleep Debt and Self-Deceit
By Jason B. Jones. This weekend, at least in the US, Daylight Saving Time resumes, which means that next week everyone’s likely to be groggy and a little confused. It turns out that this is only a slight exaggeration of our normal state. Read more...
3 avril 2016
Conspiracy Theory
By William Germano. Once upon a time, American conspiracy theory focused on the Kennedy assassination. That was then.
Even those of us least susceptible to paranoid tendencies now inhabit a conspiracy culture where fantasists and bigots, analysts and whistleblowers converge. More...
3 avril 2016
Are Struggling College Students Like Cuddly Bunnies That Should Be Drowned?
By . Australia has been dealing with a rabbit infestation for well over a century. It all started in 1859, when a wealthy homesteader named Thomas Austin released two dozen rabbits on his property. Rabbits since have become a scourge, outcompeting the country’s livestock, not to mention its native species, for grazing grass and costing farmers 110 million Australian dollars annually. More...
3 avril 2016
Behind a Computer’s Surprise Victory, Hints of Global Economic Upheaval
By Paul Basken. For experts in artificial intelligence, the program’s defeat of a human champion of one of the world’s most complex board games holds big implications for society. More...
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