Laurie Niles March 13, 2013, 12:09 PM · In a way, David Schoenbaum has been researching his book, The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument , ever since he started playing
Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are wonderful things. We should applaud MOOCS, participate in MOOCs, teach MOOCs, and encourage our institutions to participate in the MOOC movement. MOOCs will h
The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. Wagner Iworrigan, a 17-year-old high school senior on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska, knows a lot about biology,…
Noah Berger for The Chronicle Review I n the summer of 2011, Ian Morris gave what most of his fellow classics professors would consider an unusual talk. The setting: CIA headquarters. The subject: humanity's future. Until recently, intelligence analysts had taken no interest in Morris. The Stanford…
L ast summer at the festival in Hay-on-Wye, I was asked to name a famous person and choose a book to give them. I hate the leaden repetitiveness of these little quizzes: who would be the guests at y
I am taking a lot of flak from my friends in the open access community about my sour response to the White House’s statement on public access to papers arising from federally-funded scientific researc
02:53 Week 1 preview: Bills vs. Jets Chris Simms and Mike Florio both think the Jets will begin the Aaron Rodgers era with a primetime win over Josh Allen and the Bills on Monday Night Football. Live
CIA Goes Hollywood Background: Exfiltration and the CIA When briefing the CIA's Directorate of Operations (DO) or other components of the Intelligence Community (IC) about the Office of Technical Serv
Opinion Relax! You’ll Be More Productive Editors’ note: We’re resurfacing this story from the archives because who doesn’t want to be more productive? THINK for a moment about your typical workday. Do
Since the 2013 Legislative Session began in Olympia and I assumed the role of chair of the Finance Committee, it’s been a bit overwhelming to meet with literally hundreds of representatives from business, labor, cities, counties, non profits and others seeking support for their respective positions…
Chris Beneke A detail of a print of Union prisoners in a Confederate camp playing baseball, Salisbury, N.C., 1863. Courtesy of the Library of Congress .Very few people ask me why I teach baseball hist
CBS banned SodaStream's Super Bowl spot because, apparently, it was too much of a direct hit to two of its biggest sponsors, Coke and Pepsi. Please pause and read that sentence again. I am shocked tha
America's Test Kitchen has been giving viewers recipes, science lessons, and gadget how-tos for more than a decade now. Its founder and host Chris Kimball is known for taking less-than-great dishes an
A quirky part of Seattle’s not-so-distant past could come back to life in the form of the George Benson Waterfront Streetcar Line. Some prominent citizens are backing the plan, and city officials are interested. “It is something we have been thinking about,” Peter Hahn, director of the Seattle…
The Siberian taiga in the Abakan district. Six members of the Lykov family lived in this remote wilderness for more than 40 years—utterly isolated and more than 150 miles from the nearest human settle
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TO: Malcolm Gladwell FROM: Chuck Klosterman [ Wednesday, 9:04 p.m. ] Dear Malcolm: I’m writing this on Wednesday night, roughly three hours after discovering that Manti Te’o’s deceased girlfriend was
I’m hoping for a flurry of retractions. A Marine spokesperson said yesterday that she couldn’t confirm or deny that Beyoncé wasn’t lip-syncing, and pretty much every media outlet assumed that was an a
As America’s most popular sport encounters a liability problem … as gladiator Junior Seau kills himself with a shotgun blast to the chest and leaves his damaged brain to study … as awareness and penalties increase around an NFL commissioner confronting the oxymoronic task of making a violent game…
This weekend offered two of the best football games of the year, both of which I watched, though turning on the television for Sunday’s games was slightly harder after reading Dan Le Batard’s account
Contents Brace yourselves, what follows is a disturbingly long post about the best order in which to watch Star Wars. First, let me say this: for people that couldn’t care less about the prequel trilo
The mouse was conceived by the computer scientist Douglas Engelbart, developed by Xerox PARC, and made marketable by Apple. Illustration by PAUL ROGERS In late 1979, a twenty-four-year-old entrepreneu
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On the list of ways to generate a guaranteed negative knee-jerk reaction from an engineer, I offer a single word: process. Folks, in order to make sure that we hit our ship date, we have a new bug tri
WORD games reward people with a vast vocabulary and the ability to sort a jumble of letters into the most unusual concatenations. Cheating is hard because consulting a dictionary or an anagram-solving
Last fall, as members of Congress were home campaigning and America’s attention was focused on the contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, top aides to House Speaker John Boehner huddled to devise a winning strategy for the looming fiscal cliff.
Chief of Staff Mike Sommers, policy director…
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A pilot uses the FlySmart with Airbus app on an Apple iPad. The F.A.A. has no proof that electronic devices can harm a plane’s avionics, but it still perpetuates such claims. Airbus, via European Pres
The Loss of the Innocents NEWTOWN, Conn., is about 20 miles from the town where my wife grew up. It’s the kind of place that rewards rambling New England drives: there are big old Victorian houses fla
It’s a tough time to be a teacher. The bureaucracy is stifling. The politics are worse. And, the irresistible force of disruptive innovation has come to school. Everywhere you look, entrepreneurs sell
After Newtown, a mother contemplates what she can do to promote peace rather than violence. Lucas Jackson/Reuters I volunteered in my daughter Penny's first grade classroom on Monday. The simple act o
One of this blog's most read posts is a post by Ben entitled" Agood read on the culture of 'free' ". Despite being repeatedly toldthat there is no such thing as a free lunch we all love a good freebie
In the era of 3D-printed guns, ammunition may prove a better regulatory target than the weapons themselves. An early Defense Distributed project. Defense Distributed hopes to create a shareable digita
Barack Obama has been in our field of vision for a long time now, and, more than any major politician of recent memory, he hides in plain sight. He is who he is. He may strike the unsympathetic as cur
TO PUT Dave Brubeck in a box was an unwise thing to do. He’d just jump right out again, big, broad and strong, with those horn-rimmed glasses and that crazy, slightly cross-eyed smile. Call him cool,
This group of folks working together reminds me of the many working people surrounding Jesus–and he didn’t ask all of them to leave their work . . . Since over a year ago, when a group of us began dre
NFL Security Calls Cops on Brandon Marshall for the Crime of Being Black in a Rich Neighborhood – His Own When Black professional athletes say police brutality and being treated like a criminal is imp
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