by jstewardfree | Feb 17, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Carolyn Gregoire | “You shouldn’t enter college worried about what you will do when you exit,” David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, said at a World Economic Forum panel discussion last week on the state of the humanities. These words may be comforting...
by jstewardfree | Feb 14, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Andree Seu Peterson | We got whacked with snow a week ago, first the soft kind (good for shoveling but bad for snowmen), then the wet kind (backbreaking for shoveling, but we got two cool snowmen out of it). After clearing my own little piece of the American dream,...
by jstewardfree | Feb 14, 2014 | Course and Scholarship Updates
We hear a great deal about “progress” in our day, but are things on the whole getting better? By what measure can we judge the answer to this question? Think about this basic question with other free thinking people. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT...
by jstewardfree | Feb 12, 2014 | Grey Matter
Will the printed book disappear due to the eBook explosion? Are eBook sales flat-lining? Lovers of books continue to worry while eBook readers can’t figure out why printed books persist. The following infographic shows how the traditional hard copy book is...
by jstewardfree | Feb 10, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Pierre Brochu and David A Green | On 14 January 2014 a group of 75 economists, including seven Nobel laureates, released a letter calling for an increase in the US minimum wage (Woellert 2014). At the same time, George Osborne, the Conservative Chancellor of the...
