So as I was saying…. First, a bit of housekeeping. I’m back at The Atlantic full-time. I’m going to be working mainly on stories for the magazine (I’m thinking of writing something on the case for reparations, for instance), but I’ll be back here in the traditional Goldblog space as well (I’m also…

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Share this Page Printable Format E-Mail this page Learning Management Systems | News New LMS Promotes Cross-Institutional Work An international team backed by the European Union and based out of Berlin has introduced a new, free, dual-language learning management system with a large dose of…

Last week, during the Supreme Court hearing on the president’s health-care law, Justice Antonin Scalia asked an attorney, “You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? ... Or do you expect us to — to give this function to our law clerks?” Never before had I felt such appreciation for…

Photo: Mary-Louise Price Foss; Photos: Jason Kirk/Getty Images (Paramount gate), iStockphoto (cash) There are two topics in which we are all endlessly interested: sex and money. Specifically, how much of both other people are getting and from whom. While we get to hear quite a lot about these topics…

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I’ve published eight books in the past seven years, five with traditional publishers (Wiley, Penguin, HarperCollins), one comic book, and the last two I’ve self-published. In this post I give the specific details of all of my sales numbers and advances with the traditional publishers. Although the…

James Day for The New York Times The first week in October, bound for two days of client meetings in northern Italy, Marc Newson chartered a single-engine Pilatus PC-12 prop plane with a paint job by the designer Philippe Starck. It took off from Le Bourget airport outside Paris at 11 a.m. Newson…

Kobo partner WH Smith at London's Victoria Station. Photo courtesy Kobo I may be unhealthily obsessed with global digital publishing. I mean in a creepy, stalkerish, guy-who-stares-at-you-too-long-on-the-bus sense. I’m not an insider: I don’t fly to the Frankfurt Book Fair and pump publishers for…

Home Features Life Physics Feature 9 November 2011 Struggling to make your mind up? Interpret your gut instincts to help you make the right choice By Kate Douglas DECISION-MAKING was supposed to have been cracked by science long ago. It started in 1654 with an exchange of letters between two eminent…

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In his new book, The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters, Benjamin Ginsberg argues that the explosive growth in administration, the decline in faculty influence, and the institutional corporatization of American universities contributes to a loss of…

Several evenings a week, after a day’s work at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, Sergey Brin drives up the road to a local pool. There, he changes into swim trunks, steps out on a 3-meter springboard, looks at the water below, and dives. Brin is competent at all four types of…