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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

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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.

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 

So, the Pope and Obama Walk Into a Slum ...

Chris Arnade 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

Gail Collins 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.