Jonathan Rees on how MOOCs allow egocentric professors to drive others out of business while producing lower quality education and the corporate profits that drive the whole thing. In other words, while a few already well-paid superprofessors get their egos stroked conducting experiments that are...
Author: Erik Loomis
I am very happy to see that President Obama named five new national monuments yesterday. Two are dedicated to preserving public lands--the San Juan Islands in Washington and the Rio.
Mike Elk has a very disturbing story about Patriot Coal, a spinoff of industry giant Peabody Coal, going to bankruptcy court to divest itself of the pension and healthcare obligations.
"Plus Electrification" from 1972 Awesome stuff. On the other hand, propaganda about electrification was relevant in the Soviet Union in 1972.
It is so fitting that Vladimir Lenin would be a huge proponent of the theremin. See here and here. If there's one thing Lenin loved, it was Good Vibrations. Technically,.
This is a pretty amazing story of the discovery of a mass grave of Irish laborers who died in the 1832 cholera epidemic. Basically, the Irish found whatever jobs they.
Glenn Greenwald is a profoundly dishonest person. In his article today, entitled "The Racism that Fuels the War on Terror," Greenwald uses me as an example of someone who gives cover to the war on terror. Here's the actual article I wrote which Greenwald uses...
Who are the real friends of coal miners? Like in the timber wars of the 1980s, an exploitative industry and its lackey politicians have claimed that the industry looks out.
Now this is a Yankees move I can approve! The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels are closing in on a trade that would send outfielder Vernon Wells and.
Christopher Cameron has an interesting post at the U.S. Intellectual History blog about George Washington's growing abolitionism. Historians ignored this side of Washington for a very long time, but in recent years, they have paid increasing attention to it. Washington certainly benefited from slavery and...
If you haven't read Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita's Times editorial in support of gay marriage, do so. It's another of the growing examples of professional athletes pushing back against.
Jeffrey Pilcher, the noted historian of food in Mexico, has a new book placing Mexican food in a global context. When thinking of a nation's food, particularly one as laden.