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Goodbye jobs, hello 'gigs': Nunberg's Word of the Year Published Jan 12, 2016 11:09 am Passing over potential candidates like "refugee" and "microaggression," UC Berkeley linguist Geoff Nunberg has chosen "a little word that has tracked the rise and fall of the great American job" as his Word of the Year 2015.Heat and happiness: findings from the Twitterverse Published Jan 11, 2016 02:49 pm A grad student of resource economist Max Auffhammer has been analyzing swear words and emoticons used on Twitter to gauge how heat affects human happiness. Read Auffhammer's musings on this work, on the Berkeley Blog.How to fix failing schools — and how not to Published Jan 11, 2016 01:39 pm Two New Jersey cities have pursued radically different strategies for turning around their failing schools. Education professor David Kirp contrasts the two approaches, and what they suggest about educational reform, in a widely shared New York Times opinion piece. | ||
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