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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When I teach research methods, a major focus is peer review. As a process, peer review evaluates academic papers for their quality, integrity and impact on a field, largely shaping what scientists accept as "knowledge." By instinct, any academic follows up a new idea with the question, "Was that peer reviewed?" …

Image via Vortex It’s a whole new era for movie aficionados these days, with entire catalogs of classics at their fingertips that they can watch on demand. That’s what’s giving new life to a legendary horror story fans were told was deeply disturbing so they had to find out for themselves: the 1974 cult classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Inspired by details surrounding the case of the Butcher of Plainfield, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was promoted as if it was based on true events, even though the movie’s…

Half of chief data officers surveyed by Exasol felt organizations' expectations of the CDO role were misinformed. SolStock/GettySo, who wants to make a career of amplifying the power of data? In an era when data is as valuable as gold, data professionals are in demand, and the career path now leads upward to chief data officer. However, CDO is a role loaded with plenty of uncertainties, as explained by Thomas Davenport and co-authors in Harvard Business Review, calling it "the most unstable C-suite job." As they…

Co-directed with historian Adrian Cioflâncã, this exhaustive and harrowing documentary from Radu Jude revisits a heinous chapter in Romanian history: the Iași pogrom, which over the course of a few days in the summer of 1941 saw the massacre of more than 13,000 Jewish civilians. At nearly three hours long, this challenging film demands patience, attention, and even courage from its viewers.Deliberately avoiding emotionally manipulative tactics, much of the film unfolds like an archival collage. Photos of the victims are…