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18-Year-Old Hit By Car Reminds Drivers to Slow Down and Move Over When Approaching Accidents
On Feb. 15, 2016, with his gold medal in hand, 18-year-old Collin Couture couldn’t wait to tell his parents about the hockey team’s first win at the President’s Day tournament in Pittsburgh. Riding in the back seat next to his … Continue reading
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Yes, I Can: The Research Behind Home Canning
“The supply and code of food, its proper care, preparation and serving is the practice and effectual basis of housekeeping and home-making—a splendid key to the social, educational and domestic development of the American girl, and through her comes a … Continue reading
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Research That Matters: Examining the Findings of a Virginia Tech Hockey Study
I can only recall one time when a family conversation centered on an academic research study. This Spring, a Virginia Tech study examined hockey helmets using a methodology developed at nearby Virginia Tech’s bioengineering lab. As parents to two teenage … Continue reading
The Sobering Research About Teenage Drivers
Dear Daniel, Now that you’re six months past your fifteenth birthday, you’re eager to get your learner’s permit to drive a car, and then eventually your driver’s license. Me, not so much. I remember learning to drive at your age … Continue reading
When research goes wrong: My top 10 list
With apologies to former late-night host David Letterman—and to Dr. Bohannon for inspiring this blog with this week’s presentation—here are the top 10 things that annoy me most about research methods and the people who misuse them. Conclusions by Captain … Continue reading
Media bias: “Not always a bad thing”
As long as communications involve humans, those communications and how they’re interpreted will involve bias. That is to say, the how information is initially produced, consumed by audiences, interpreted by humans, perceived and then communicated to others. Scholarly researchers should … Continue reading
High school start times: Research says 7 a.m. is too early
Last week marked a transition for my family when our two teenage boys started high school. Daniel headed to nearby Thomas Dale High School in Chester, VA. At the same time, David started his classes at the Virginia Governor’s School … Continue reading
Copyright is about leverage–and control
Anyone with an Internet connection can access a broad universe of music, movies, and e-books. As I recently explained to my teenage boys, when I was your age, my entertainment consisted of radio, vinyl records and Saturday morning cartoons. Nowadays, … Continue reading
Effective Forms Demonstrate Visual Rhetoric
There’s a place where rhetorical principles, information design techniques, visual design applications, and copywriting all meet. No, they don’t meet at a bar, and this isn’t the start of a bad ID joke. The form. Few digital artifacts require so … Continue reading
Making digital information more accessible
Think for a moment about your typical day online. You might review your checking account balance and then pay some bills. You might remember to send a gift directly to one person, and save a couple of items on your … Continue reading
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