Elementary (education), my dear Watson
As I write this, my 10-year-old is doing her 5th grade computer homework – creating a PowerPoint presentation on the grasslands biome, complete with colorful backgrounds, funky animations, and...
View ArticleMarket Research is a Science!
Ray Poynter just published an excellent and very thought-provoking piece on his blog about the relationship between market research and science. Two of the key points he makes are (a) that science...
View ArticleYou can fake, but you can’t hide
Talk about coming out of the closet — Amina Abdallah Arraf, the outspoken lesbian Muslim blogger from Damascus who was kidnapped by Syrian security forces, turns out to be 40-year-old Tom MacMaster, a...
View ArticleContentious robot fish of the Bible
…or, some highlights from the 2011 Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics First, a word from our curmudgeon: Far too many of the papers, unfortunately as usual, could be summarized...
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