“I have a theory: Google has changed how college students interact with their teachers. I estimate that 90% of the questions that students email to ask me are already answered on their syllabus and the webpages linked to from the...
Google Maps Recognizes Black Lives Matter Plaza
Washington D.C.: Here is WFTV 9: A sign on the street now identifies that section of 16th Street near the White House as “Black Lives Matter Plaza.” City workers and local artists painted the street that leads to the White...
What Colleges and Universities Can Learn from the Silicon Valley (Ironically, its not what you might think)
Today we recorded Episode 54 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. Our guest was Western Washington historian Johann Neem, author of What’s the Point of College: Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform. I don’t want to give too...
Want to Work at Google? Take Some Humanities Courses. Or Better Yet, MAJOR in the Humanities!
Fascinating piece here from Valerie Strauss at The Washington Post: In 2013, Google decided to test its hiring hypothesis by crunching every bit and byte of hiring, firing, and promotion data accumulated since the company’s incorporation in 1998. Project Oxygen shocked...
OAH 2018 Dispatch: Digital History
We are pleased to add this dispatch from Gabriel Loiacono to our coverage of the 2018 meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Sacramento. Gabe is Associate Professor of History and Director of the University Studies Program at the University...
What Happened to the Greatest Library in the World?
Turns out it was illegal. Check out Jamie Somers’s piece at The Atlantic on Google’s failed attempt to scan every out of print book in the world. Here is a taste: Although academics and library enthusiasts like [Harvard historian Robert] Darnton were thrilled...
New York is Obsessed with Charlie Sheen and Oklahoma is Obsessed with Caitlyn Jenner
I love this map. It shows the most popular Google searches by state in 2015. Click here to see what the top five Google searches in each state....
Google is Looking for Potential Employees Who Demonstrate “Intellectual Humility”
This a very interesting post on why Google does not often hire college graduates from the so-called “top schools.” Here is a taste:Google looks for the ability to step back and embrace other people’s ideas when they’re better. “It’s ‘intellectual humility.’ Without humility,...
Explore Monticello Via Google Maps
In case you couldn’t make it to Thomas Jefferson’s home today to celebrate Independence Day (and hear rocker Dave Matthews speak), The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has offered a tour of via Google Maps. Check it out here....
Image of the Day
HT: Jon Rowe on Facebook...
Image of the Day
HT: Jon Rowe on Facebook...