by Will Katerberg. “Big Data” is all the rage today. We have data sets so large that current database management software can’t handle it. Think, for example, of medical records and demographic statistics and the need to identify trends and patterns in them. The study of history is going big these days too. We teach …
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by Ron Wells. Some people reading this may recall Dr. Dale Brown, formerly of the English Department at Calvin. He was the guiding light of the Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing. He is now at King College in Tennessee, where he directs The Buechner Institute, which, as its web page reads, is an institute …
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by Dan Miller. Part I of this report focused on Mexico’s political problems related to the Drug War. This second part examines problems in Mexico’s economy, as well as recent efforts to address these political and economic problems: Problem Two: the Economy Mexico's economy was also corrupted by seventy years of one party rule. With …
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by Dan Miller. In recent weeks, the world’s attention has been riveted on Eurasia, where crises in Syria and Ukraine, tensions in the Koreas and the South China Sea, not to mention the Winter Olympic games in Sochi, have filled the headlines. Maybe that’s actually good news for Latin America since it suggests a degree …
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by Will Katerberg. Everything has a history, but it’s easy not to notice. Partly that’s because we associate “history” with humanity, not the rest of the natural world. Partly it’s because some things seem timeless and unchanging, such as climate. Weather changes; climate does not seem to. A new book by John L. Brooke, a …
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