Hahahahahahaha: "Meanwhile, is there any whisky left?"

https://zoozethehorse.blogspot.com/2017/02/technical-term-papers-rant-by-suzy-from.html

https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/elitist-superfluous-or-popular-we-polled-americans-on-the-oxford-comma/?ex_cid=538twitter

There’s been a lot of ink spilled on the Oxford comma, the comma that goes before “and” in a list of three or more things. Is it a grammatical must or an unnecessary blight? (You’ve seen the insufferable and ahistoric comic of JFK and Stalin dressed as exotic dancers.) Grammatical experts have weighed in, but what does the average American think?

http://nhpr.org/topic/civics-101-podcast

Ever wonder what a White House Chief of Staff actually does? How about a Press Secretary? And is gerrymandering still a thing in this country?

http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/social-media/?utm_content=buffer1cd60&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Today around seven-in-ten Americans use social media to connect with one another, engage with news content, share information and entertain themselves.

Research humor!

https://xkcd.com/1798/

https://www.statslife.org.uk/health-medicine/3181-remembering-hans-rosling

Professor Hans Rosling, a statistician and public educator who was committed to sharing the joy – and importance – of statistics, died yesterday. In a statement posted on the Gapminder website, his son and daughter-in-law, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, explained that Prof. Rosling had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year ago and that he had passed away early Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family in Uppsala, Sweden.

Will You Graduate? Ask Big Data https://nyti.ms/2jYBTAJ

Georgia State is one of a growing number of colleges and universities using what is known as predictive analytics to spot students in danger of dropping out. Crunching hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of student academic and personal records, past and present, they are coming up with courses that signal a need for intervention.

https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-tweets-are-now-presidential-records-71973

The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 may be where Trump runs into trouble. The law, passed to modernize the PRA with respect to electronic records, provides that the president should not use an unofficial “electronic messaging account” for presidential records unless he or she copies or forwards a complete copy to an official account. While there is no specific language regarding social media, past presidents set up auto-archiving so that deleted tweets were also saved. It is unclear whether the Trump administration has done the same.

https://daily.jstor.org/what-are-executive-orders-anyway/

An executive order is a “presidential directive that requires or authorizes some action within the executive branch.” These orders have the force of law. Every president has signed such orders except for William Henry Harrison, who only served for 32 days. President Obama, much criticized by his opponents for the practice, issued 279, compared with George W. Bush’s 291, Bill Clinton’s 308, and Ronald Reagan’s 381.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-computer-just-clobbered-four-pros-at-poker/?ex_cid=story-twitter

And, indeed, some robot can now etch heads-up no-limit Texas Hold ‘em (2017) alongside checkers (1995), chess (1997), Othello (1997), Scrabble (c. 2006), limit Hold ‘em (2008), Jeopardy! (2011) and Go (2016) into the marble cenotaph of human-dominated intellectual pursuits.