Tag: ACADEMIA

Remember how we thought in the mid-'90s that the 2000s would be all about holographs and virtual worlds? But didn't we collectively agree that virtual reality jumped the shark around the time CNN opened a Second Life news bureau, but apparently academe never signed on. The New York Times has a charming story today on how university professors are using interactive, digital visualizations to ...

If you're a mega-dork like this Switched editor, whether a research junkie or just a pompous pedant, from time to time you absolutely love to load up on academic journals (including the Journal of Food Science, October and, obviously, The Lancet). Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that "some humanities scholars have begun to challenge the monopoly" that these journals represent, ...

Thank goodness our e-mail addresses have changed since the days of Shakespeare 101, or we'd be getting big, fat "I told you so's" from our college professors. For as many years as he's been studied, scholars have raged about whether or not Shakespeare had collaborators (or snatched some language from playwrights of his day). However, Sir Brian Vickers at the University of London says he can now ...