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Does Cam Newton Have Enough Weapons to Succeed?

Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers are on the precipice of a crucial season, as another sub-.500 record would likely lead to coaching and personnel changes.

What Professors Can Learn From "Hard Core" MOOC Students

jyosim writes "Hundreds of people are spending 20 or 30 hours a week just taking free Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. They're not looking for credit, just the challenge of learning.

Blinded By Big Data: It's The Models, Stupid

In the Gold Rush to accumulate and put to use Big Data, we may actually be making it harder to actually glean insights from that data. Yet the prospect of data solving all of our problems is so tempting that even the brightest minds of our generation seem confused.

Hofstra student was accidentally killed by officer, police admit

Andrea Rebello, 21, who was being held at gunpoint by an intruder in her home, was shot once by a Nassau County officer

A Hofstra University student being held in a headlock at gunpoint by an intruder was accidentally shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to

Indian Publishing Firm Can't Take A Little Criticism, Threatens Blogger With $1 Billion Lawsuit, Criminal Charges

Here's a fun one via Popehat. Apparently an Indian publishing firm by the name of OMICS can't take some criticism from a blogger.

Cannabis: Colorado's budding industry

Dispensaries selling cannabis bath salts, 'bud-tenders' advising on blends, even a marijuana university. As Colorado gears up for legalisation, we get the dope on Denver's 'green rush'

I'm being driven around Denver by America's first professional stoner.

When will the bodies at the border enter the conversation on immigration? John Carlos Frey

US policymakers have forced deported families to risk death across inhospitable terrain. They need to confront the rising death toll

The only remains left of Alfonso Martinez Sanchez, when his 19-year-old daughter Gladys finally tracked him down, were a jacket, a watch, a key chain and a bo

Bowl Busted: How ACC Teams Are Being Set Up by the Relationship with Notre Dame

Even though much is being made this week of Notre Dame’s perilous non-BCS bowl situation coming into the 2013 season, after next year the Irish may well screw full-fledged ACC football members out of their rightful bowl bids.

Indeed, according to an article posted on ESPN.

DailyDirt: Getting An Online Education...

The existing system of going to a school, listening to lectures and getting a degree after you've passed some tests might not be the way education will operate in the near future.

B/R's Memorable Moments: Boise State Upsets Oklahoma

On January 1, 2007 at University of Phoenix Stadium, Boise State changed college football forever by stunning Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl, 43-42.

Now, over eight years later, let us look back on this fantastic game that rocked the college football world.