Doable, but courage and confidence would be required.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/the-open-dissertation/61743

Very brief article!

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/heres-a-snapshot-of-online-learning-in-2015/108514

The percentage of academic leaders who said online learning was critical to their institution’s mission dropped from 71 percent, in 2014 — the highest ever — to 63 percent.

The number of distance-education students increased at a slightly higher rate — 3.9 percent — from 2014 to 2015 than it did in the previous year.

The percentage of academic leaders who said their faculty members believe online education is legitimate remained very low — 29 percent.

http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/the-princeton-bitcoin-textbook-is-now-free-online.html

On the Freedom to Tinker blog, ArvindNarayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton, announced yesterday:

The first complete draft of the Princeton Bitcoin textbook is now freely available. We’re very happy with how the book turned out: it’s comprehensive, at over 300 pages, but has a conversational style that keeps it readable.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/07/28/15-of-americans-dont-use-the-internet-who-are-they/?utm_content=bufferc7602&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The latest Pew Research analysis also shows that internet non-adoption is correlated to a number of demographic variables, including age, educational attainment, household income, race and ethnicity, and community type.

Part 1 of a series to know, folks…

http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2016/01/navigating-copyright-part-1.html

While this is about Econ, the idea of diagrams (models) is good in any field.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman/2016/02/06/in-defense-of-funny-diagrams-wonkish/?referer=

"Now, it’s true that the real economy isn’t characterized by competitive general equilibrium. But it’s still a useful baseline — not so much an idealization as a description of how things should be, which helps to cast how they really are into much sharper relief."

Note: defining what "middle class" is tough, in the context of survey respondents and their interpretation of what that is.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/04/what-americans-say-it-takes-to-be-middle-class/

What does it take to be considered part of the middle class these days? The vast majority of American adults agree that a secure job and the ability to save money for the future are essential. The public is more evenly split when it comes to owning a home and having the time and money to travel for vacation. But one thing is now less likely to be seen as a requirement: a college education.

Figure F is very interesting…

http://www.epi.org/publication/wages-and-transfers/

Bill Maher should have known better…

http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/charlie-sheens-hiv-goat-milk-doctor/

Interesting stuff!

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/uber-is-serving-new-yorks-outer-boroughs-more-than-taxis-are/?ex_cid=538twitter

"…the data we’ve analyzed shows that Uber has a point when it claims that it is doing a better job than taxis in serving the boroughs of New York City outside of Manhattan. Of the 4.4 million Uber rides for which the data shows a pickup location, 22 percent started outside of Manhattan, compared with just 14 percent of the 88.4 million yellow and green taxi rides."