Sunday Comics
In this week’s Sunday Comics, Cathy checks into Alcoholics Anonymous.
A Serious Business
What can a good joke do? Mary O’Hara meets the performers and researchers who say that comedy can change how we think and even how we act.
Why Humanities Majors Should Take Science Courses
Now that science and technology touch everyone’s lives, it’s past time to reunite them with social and ethical discussion. Yoo Jung Kim writes.
Analog: The Last Defense Against DRM
Elliot Harmon considers the disadvantages of a wireless, digital existence, via some thoughts about Apple’s new iPhone.
The Auspicious Knot Untied: Duels
Thoughts on other dimensions of Nick Stokes’ Duels
A politics of cooperation: Caroline Woolard on free culture, fine art, and everyday life
Interdisciplinary artist Caroline Woolard engages with political economy and activism through radically innovative collaborative projects. Jennie Rose Halperin talks with the artist about her work, the Commons, and the meaning of collaboration.
From the Commons – Thing of the Week: Stranger Peaks
Seattle’s own doom-hop band Prom Queen makes their way into our Thing of the Week with their new music single, Stranger Peaks.
Fixing Obamacare: The Democrats Have to Talk About It
Dean Baker gets down and dirty on Obamacare.
Unpicking Cherry Picking
Part 2 of Hilda Bastian’s analysis of gender-bias bias continues here.
This is How Research Gender-Bias Bias Works
Hilda Bastian goes meta in this exploration of gender-bias bias in published scientific papers.
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