Sunday, December 19, 2010

Q: How do you write a strong lede for an article?

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Practice! And read the best stories in print. And read Blundell's "The Art and Craft of Feature Writing." Go look up old stori...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Q: In what ways are the US News & World Report rankings for colleges flawed?

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About a quarter of the U.S. News formula is an opinion poll of university administrators (presidents, provosts and deans) and high school co...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Q: Could a flatlander utilize flatland technology to perceive something in the third dimension?

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There are some big differences between living in a plane, versus living in Euclidean 3D and merely being able to perceive only a plane slice...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

3G and me

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In 2002, I got my first cell phone. June was stuffy in Manhattan, and my summer internship copy-editing the  New York Sun , the now-defun...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

Q: What are some good day trips around Boston?

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Take the ferry or sail to Spectacle Island, visit the museum on the island's history, hike up to the top of the island (the highest poin...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Q: What advice would you give a college freshman in the Boston area to make life easy, fun, and successful?

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Get out and enjoy all that Boston has to offer! Spend the summers here -- Boston is beautiful in the summer. Get a guidebook and peruse it. ...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Q: What is the difference between Bayesian and frequentist statistics?

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Mathematically speaking, frequentist and Bayesian methods differ in what they care about, and the kind of errors they're willing to acce...
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Q: Did MIT's decline (outside of biology and life sciences) begin shortly before WW2?

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The democratization of electronics -- made possible by transistors and integrated circuits, among other things -- surely contributed to a de...