Word of the day: heteroskedasticity
Heteroskedasticity is the idea, in statistics, that the variance of the standard errors […]
Patron journalism
Paul Steiger, editor of the well-funded investigative journalism non-profit ProPublica, came by Lippmann […]
Self-selected Genius
The MacArthur Awards were dominated by people from California and the Eastern Seaboard. […]
Chords of Might
The word ‘charm’ etched onto a cornice caught my eye recently on Harvard’s […]
Only at Harvard
Only a t Harvard: you attend a random cocktail party where someone says, […]
The waylaid plans of men named Mike
I thought this week would see me get out in front of a […]
Global business and its discontents
Some of the greatest expressions of human creativity come from entrepreneurs. Building even […]
Reporting in good conscience
Nieman Fellows spend a good chunk of our time on extra-curricular activities; to […]
Course shopping at Harvard
I’m a month into classes at Harvard as part of my Nieman fellowship. […]
Zeitgeist 2010
All the buzz out of Zeitgeist was that Google gave a bunch of […]