I’ve been meaning to write about Massimo Pigliucci’s excellent post on the sorry state of higher education, but haven’t gotten around to it until now. Anyway, he mentions a lot of great things and I want to highlight one in particular—his insistence that universities are not businesses: Universities are not businesses, they are places of [...]
Editor’s Note: Introducing Liftoff, a new regular blog feature. Like our weekly Endpoint posts, Liftoff is a roundup of interesting links and headlines that we think will be important to pay attention to in the upcoming week. We hope you read and enjoy. Feel free to send us feedback or links in the comments. Nikki [...]
The week’s best links that we didn’t get to: 1. A weird, cool video on whether science can answer moral questions. 2. The FTC wants to protect your privacy on Facebook. 3. Building a consumer culture in China. 4. The Big Fat Kiss-In. 5. Old professors are fewer and better than you think. 6. Hourglass traffic lights. 7. Pictures from the [...]
Last night, the College Democrats held their weekly “Kick-Ass Thursday” Meeting. The event was titled “A Conversation on Apology, Reparations, and Reconciliation,” which mainly focused on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) as it relates to U-M and human rights. Our latest issue seemed to be timed pretty well. I learned a [...]
Yesterday was a sad day for soccer in the United States, but a happy one for the small, oil rich, Middle East nation of Qatar. In a vote of its executive members FIFA named Russia and Qatar the hosts the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals, respectively. Though neither nation has hosted the event before, [...]
Ezra Klein thinks technology—and he’s mainly talking about Facebook, Twitter and all the other doodads and whatsits the kids are talking about these days—is a pretty big deal: I was talking with Tim Wu on Tuesday, and he argued that the direction these technologies take are going to be much more important in terms of human [...]
