May 17, 2013 ·298 views
The marriage of commercialized sports and academic institutions has turned the situation of a small but high profile group of elite athletes into one resembling exploited workers as much as talented student-athletes. As college athletics becomes a bigger and bigger industry with ever larger stakes, colleges risk sacrificing huge amounts of funding as well as their academic culture in the race to keep up.
May 15, 2013 ·92 views
What's a good story worthy to you? $1,000? Okay, how about a nickel instead?
May 14, 2013 ·497 views
It’s not hard to imagine dystopian applications of our online data being used as hiring criteria. The worst case? A world in which a majority of workers have to carefully prune from their online personalities any hint of a characteristic that conservative corporate businesses may find risky.
May 13, 2013 ·1,512 views
A major shift toward buying used could reduce waste, pollution and carbon emissions, save people money, and maybe even put a dent in the American proclivity for accumulating too much crap.
May 13, 2013 ·426 views
It is the physicality of books and paper that make them seem inefficient. But their physicality also helps us remember what we read and write.
May 10, 2013 ·23,132 views
The current model of publicly funding research and publishing it in academic journals was developed during the days of Isaac Newton in response to 17th century problems.
May 10, 2013 ·699 views
Dear nerds, here are a few of our favorite articles of late. Hope you'll enjoy reading them as much as we did.
May 9, 2013 ·369 views
Does the future of journalism look a lot more like NPR than The New York Times?