John D. Dingell, a Michigan Democrat who served in the U.S. House from 1955 to 2015, was the longest-serving member of Congress in American history. He dictated these reflections to his wife, Rep. Deb

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You just want to answer the question: “What do I need to do for GDPR?” Maybe you’ve worked your way through a few online quizzes to test for GDPR readiness or skimmed an article that made some vague s

A reflection of my two year Journey so far. Sample size N = 1 Robert Chang Jun 20, 2015 · 15 min read Motivation On June 17, 2015, I celebrated my two year #Twitterversary @Twitter. Looking back, the

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We’ve all heard in school that “correlation does not imply causation,” but what does imply causation?! The gold standard for establishing cause and effect is a double-blind controlled trial (or the AB

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I first met Sen. Marco Rubio at a Republican fundraiser in 2014 where he was the featured speaker. “Hi, my name is Mark Thies”, I said. “I’m an Engineering Professor at Clemson.” “Engineers!”, he said

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You hear a lot nowadays about the magic of big data. Getting hold of the right numbers can increase revenue, improve decision-making, or help you find a mate—or so the thinking goes. In 2009, U.S. Edu

This article has a correction. Please see: Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different tests - September 13, 1997 Trisha Greenhalgh , senior lecturer (p.greenhalgh@u

Noam Chomsky has not just been watching the Occupy movement. A veteran of the civil rights, anti-war, and anti-intervention movements of the 1960s through the 1980s, he’s given lectures at Occupy Boston and talked with occupiers across the US. His new book, Occupy , published in the Occupied Media…

Sat., May 5, 2012 While spring in Ontario has yet to bring much rain, there’s been no shortage of mudslinging over rising electricity prices. But there’s more to it than critics of renewable energy would you have you believe: new data helps to clarify how prices are linked more to nuclear power than…

The repatriation of the Constitution (along with the creation of the Charter) was Pierre Trudeau's greatest political triumph, Chantal Hebert writes. But it was also the beginning of the end of the Liberal hegemony on federal politics ( Ron Bull / Toronto Star file photo ) By National Affairs Wed.,…

I have some good news—kick back, relax, enjoy the rest of the summer, stop worrying about where your life is and isn’t heading. What news? Well, on 24th September, we can officially and definitively declare that postmodernism is dead. Finished. History. A difficult period in human thought over and…

Author Margaret Atwood visited The Globe and Mail editorial board on Thursday, April 21. This is a complete transcript from that meeting. For shorter excerpts, click here . Ms. Atwood: I'm not a member of any political party, at the moment. Although I have been members of various ones. I was once a…

Dear 8th Graders, I’m sorry. I didn’t know. I spent last night perusing the 150-plus pages of grading materials provided by the state in anticipation of reading and evaluating your English Language Arts Exams this morning. I knew the test was pointless—that it has never fulfilled its stated purpose…

Some call this the closing of the conservative mind. Alas, the conservative mind has proved itself only too open, these past years, to all manner of intellectual pollen. Call it instead the drying up of conservative creativity. It’s clearly true that the country faces daunting economic troubles.…