Cathy N. Davidson

Tired from All that Multitasking? Blame it on the Revolution. Posted on December 1, 2011 by Jim Sweeney Once upon a time, we went to work for a singular purpose:  to do work.  We dug ditches, directed traffic, operated machinery, sold insurance, created advertising, designed clothing, milked cows and on and on.  And whatever your job was, that…

DEC. 1, 10 A.M. The newsonomics of tomorrow What seemed not long ago like science fiction is closer to becoming science fact. How will that change the ways in which we report, distribute, and consume the news? By KEN DOCTOR

High-tech clicks … but only for some schools By JOE ROBERTSON The Kansas City Star KEITH MYERS [A student in Kelly Finn’s high-tech classroom at The Barstow School, 13 -year-old Ryan Olson used his convertable tablet computer as he led a recent discussion for a writers workshop class. The school puts new technologies to work…

Demonstrators calling for resignations and reforms in the wake of officer pepper-spraying UC-Davis protesters By Lisa M. Krieger lkrieger@mercurynews.com   Posted: 11/22/2011 06:32:40 AM PST Updated: 11/22/2011 08:11:58 AM PST Images of police dousing students with pepper spray at UC Davis and jabbing them with batons at UC Berkeley drew national condemnation and set off new protests…

November 21, 2011 A Plea to College Presidents: Exercise Your Moral Leadership Wayne Tilcock, The Enterprise, AP Images A campus police officer sprays protesters at the U. of California at Davis in an incident that has galvanized the Occupy movement and led to calls for the chancellor’s resignation. Enlarge Image By Cathy N. Davidson On…

What is wrong with a cop who walks calmly in front of a group of seated students, steadily shaking a can of pepper spray so he can better spread it over them like it’s a bug spray he’s applying to a nest of hornets?  That was the question that I asked myself as I watched…