Online schooling: Who is harmed and who is helped?

Online students did substantially worse than students in the same face-to-face course: They earned lower grades, were less likely to succeed in subsequent courses, and more likely to drop out.

How Flu Shot Manufacturing Forces Influenza to Mutate.

Hippies, Hacker und „Illegale“: Wie die Krise des Staates die Grenzen des Politischen verschiebt.

Ich würde nicht sagen, dass die Verbindung aus Computern, alternativen Kulturen und der Kritik an Polizei und Herrschaftsstrukturen keinen Boden für eine progressive Auffassung von der Staatsbürgerschaft bereitet. Ich sehe im Gegenteil die Möglichkeiten dieses Feldes und hoffe, dass diese Möglichkeiten weiter genutzt werden. Ich möchte jedoch eindringlich darauf hinweisen, dass solche Ideale von mächtigen Akteuren gekapert werden können und dass solche Ideale oft radikal erscheinen, ohne es in Wirklichkeit zu sein.

Hear, hear!

We’ve Not Thought Through the Legal and Ethical Disruption of Augmented Reality.

Let’s not repeat the mistakes we made with social media.

The real consequences of Patreon's adult content crackdown.

(Totally missed that those hipster Nazis were funding their evil existence via Patreon…)

Relevant: Die Banalität der Verbrechen gegen Migranten.

#11111

The future of your entrée is quietly growing in Memphis Meats' lab.

It's not crazy to think you might one day be able to brew meat at $1 per pound.

Barry Salt’s Database of Movie Measurements at cinemetrics.lv (via aeon.co).

Would the world be more peaceful if there were more women leaders?

(…) throughout history, women leaders have been extremely rare. Between 1950 and 2004, according to data compiled by Katherine W Phillips, professor of leadership and ethics at Columbia Business School, just 48 national leaders across 188 countries – fewer than 4 per cent of all leaders – have been female. They included 18 presidents and 30 prime ministers. Two countries, Ecuador and Madagascar, had a woman leader, each of whom served for a mere two days before being replaced by a man.

Given the tiny sample size, does it even make sense to ask if, given power, women are more or less likely than men to wage wars?

Leipzig is calling you, Henry.

By chance, on my way home from an exceptionally exhausting lecture I gave, I passed by the Druck & Buch gallery at Berggasse and spotted the colourful art books of Lubok Verlag, Leipzig.

Browsing some of the anthologies exhibited aplenty my favourites were the linocuts of Sophie von Stillfried and Thomas Müller.

Der umfassendste und ausgewogenste Beitrag zur Glyphosat-Debatte, den ich bisher gelesen habe.