2012 Newsmakers: The headline actsPsy and a Jay-Z’s baby topped music charts, while a blogger and Kim Jong Un also earned the world’s attention.
Newsmakers of the weekSonia Sotomayor hits Sesame Street, Robert Mugabe is the new Cecil Rhodes, plus a king-in-not-waiting
What students are talking about today (November 6th edition)Obama’s odds, no-money-down tuition, Halo 4 & a drug bust
274.5? 315? A U.S. election apéritifColby Cosh works to extract a signal from the noise while offering a lesson from the Alberta election
Now is the time to argue about Nate Silver’s methodJamie Weinman on the gap between trusting your gut and stats
Tarnished Silver: Assessing the new king of statsNate Silver’s attackers don’t know what they’re talking about. (Nor do his defenders)
Mind the ’credibility’ gapColby Cosh finds out what subsets, modelling assumptions and ’non-probability samples’ have to do with polling these days