Academia

A report from The Chronicle of Higher Education looks at schools around the country that are offering quick classes many athletes use to maintain their academic eligibility. In one course at Western Oklahoma State College, students can take a 3-credit class, in 10 days, where they learn about making computer folders and minimizing and maximizing computer windows.

Jerry Sandusky, the 68-year-old former Penn State football coach convicted of abusing 10 children, will likely die behind bars, after a judge determined he should be sentenced to no less than 30 years in prison.

Social networking and texting have become a large part of many of our daily interactions. It can be hard to find someone who doesn’t have a cell phone or a Facebook account. Sherry Turkle believes that too much focus is put on these new technologies and that conversations are suffering a result of it.

Constructal law, designed by Duke University professor Adrian Bejan, is a new way of looking at how the world works. According to the law, everything that moves, whether animate or inanimate, is based on a flow system, which is tree shaped.

With jobs hard to find, fewer Mexicans are choosing to make the trip across the border into the United States, at the same time more are choosing to turn around and head home. Accordingly, for the first time in years, in 2010 the net migration from Mexico was about zero.