Obamas and the King
The New York Times
Rumsfeld: The Unknown Known (Documentary)
In The Unknown Known, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (The Fof of War) offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, who served as George W. Bush's secretary of defense and as the principal architect of the Iraq War.
Open Access Explained!
What is open access? A Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD) comic takes us through the world of open access publishing and explains just what it's all about.
Friday Nite Videos -- March 28, 2014
Portside
Sarah Jones: One Woman, Eight Hilarious Characters. Donald Rumsfeld: The Unknown Known. A Dog, a Noun and a Verb. Open Access Explained! Stop Freaking Out About the Debt.
Sarah Jones: One Woman, Eight Hilarious Characters
In this hilariously lively performance, actress Sarah Jones channels an opinionated elderly Jewish woman, a fast-talking Dominican college student and more.
A Dog, a Noun and a Verb
Chaser the border collie responds to combinations of three verbs and three nouns, demonstrating understanding of their independent meaning
Stop Freaking Out About the Debt
Why the national debt isn't as scary as you think, in under two minutes.
So, the Pope and Obama Walk Into a Slum ...
The Guardian
When you bend the rules to favor the wealthy, they never give back. Francis knows this because it is how Argentina, and much of Latin America, has been run for centuries.
A Christie Life Primer
The New York Times
When the political ship is going down, nobody will bother to rescue the unattached woman and the dork from senior year.
Science and Data Journalism at Nate Silver’s New 538
PLOS One
If it looks as if the folks at 538 are making it up as they go along, that’s because they are. 538 badly needs a news editor. More than 1.
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