UC Berkeley School of Information

This Professor Uses Data To Reveal Hidden Patterns in Centuries of Human Storytelling

David Bamman studies culture at a scale few humans ever could. An associate professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information, Bamman uses computational methods to analyze books, films and music, ...
The Harvard Crimson

We Analyzed a Decade’s Worth of Harvard Grades. Here’s What We Found, Department By Department.

Harvard’s new grade cap is meant to curb a decade of rising A’s — but confidential course-level data shows the policy will ...
Independent Florida Alligator

OPINION: The lecture is dead

College students spend anywhere from 12 to 18 hours per week in a lecture hall. Their eyes wander across their computer. They sort their to-do list, complete the Wordle and text their friends. In the ...
Inside Higher Ed

Can’t Quit the Lecture? Try Quasi-Active Learning

Step into most college classrooms today and you will likely see a familiar scene: slides glowing at the front, a professor lecturing, students scribbling notes or staring at laptops. Despite decades ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Book of Toni Morrison’s University Lectures, Now Collected for the First Time, Shares Some of the Legendary Novelist’s Most Important Lessons

Before her career as a novelist, Toni Morrison was a teacher. The famed American author, best known for works such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931. After attending ...
The Atlantic

The Lecture I Couldn’t Give

Last May, I gave a lecture at the Air War College, the Air Force’s senior service school for officers. I have taught at West Point and spoken at several other senior service schools. At the Air War ...
CNN

Peter Thiel’s secret lectures on Antichrist in Rome spark debate

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with ...
PBS

Peter Thiel brings his lectures on the Antichrist to the Vatican's doorstep

ROME (AP) — One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican's backyard these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The ...
PC Magazine

The Best Personal Data Removal Services for 2026

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...
Psychology Today

Emotional Granularity Is Not Just About Labels

In psychology, emotional granularity—also called emotion differentiation—is usually defined by language. People are considered more granular when they use a wider range of emotion terms and when their ...
Los Angeles Times

Academic lectures have invaded L.A. bars and tickets are selling out in minutes

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On a nippy Monday night at the Zebulon in Frogtown, a man wearing a Jason Voorhees T-shirt steps onto a ...