The disastrous experiment between San Jose State University and Udacity has basically ended after it turns out students fail in enormous numbers using MOOCs. “This is very much the end of the San Jose State-Udacity partnership for this pilot, and it’s really an attempt --...
Author: Erik Loomis
Speaking of the New Gilded Age, Michael Bloomberg sure is the perfect plutocrat/political leader for it: It was only a matter of time — assuming Michael Bloomberg couldn't run out.
Look, I can't see why everyone is after Steve Stockman just because his campaign headquarters was an overcrowded sweatshop where volunteers lived and worked without safety precautions and was declared.
It's always useful to remember the true depraved evil of King Leopold II and the horrors of Belgian rule over the Congo, a legacy that goes far to define the lives of the people of central Africa today.
I don't have kids so I can't put them to bed with stories like this. I assume Farley and bspencer use this one all the time. Night, night!
Green chile. The greatest gift New Mexico has given to the world, when you visit the Land of Enchantment, that chile is found everywhere from the most humble breakfast burrito.
I guess we've now reached the point in the presidential cycle when hometown newspapers write ridiculous articles promoting local candidates for a presidential run. If he weren’t the nation’s oldest governor, a ripe 75, Jerry Brown would automatically be counted among serious Democratic candidates for...
Another of the great country legends has traveled to the great honky tonk in the sky. Today, Ray Price doesn't have the cache of Cash, Nelson, Haggard, or Williams. But.
What does private school tuition and massive fundraising campaigns go towards? Why, feathering the nests of top administrators of course! Forty-two presidents of private colleges were paid more than a.
The Dallas Morning News, which has been outstanding on covering the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion and its aftermath, has a strongly damning report on the response to the disaster from the state of Texas. Which is nothing. Nothing has changed. This is the state’s...
In all the celebrations of Peter O'Toole upon his death, let us not forget the equally sad demise of the great Joan Fontaine. Farran Nehme with more.
It's not just the state of the oceans that makes me want to drink. Reading about the Great Lakes will do just fine. Tiny plastic beads used in hundreds of.