The Non-fiction Feature: Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
The Children’s Spot: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith
The Product Spot: Khan Academy
Author Archives: Carlen
Khan Academy
A super helpful free resource for learning the basics of almost any subject you can think of.
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
An excellent, simple guide to the central concepts of statistics, with pictures and clear explanations.
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from Data
Illuminating the underlying logic of statistics, and how it can be used for or against us.
Pithy Summary – Bulletin #43
The Non-fiction Feature: Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
The Fiction Spot: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Product Spot: Foreign Affairs (magazine/website)
Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
How U.S. foreign affairs shaped the world with the Order, and a view of what’s to come.
Things Fall Apart
The archetypal modern African novel that contrasts life in precolonial Africa with the colonialism that followed.
Foreign Affairs (magazine/website)
Via essays, reports, books, a podcast, and more, Foreign Affairs is incredibly useful as a high-level, thorough, substantive, and intelligent take on how the U.S. impacts the world today.
Pithy Summary – Bulletin #42
The Non-fiction Feature: The Creation of the Media by Paul Starr
The Memoir & Poetry Spot: Me and The Times by Robert Stock
The Product Spot: News Literacy Project
News Literacy Project
The News Literacy Project provides resources for the general public and educators to help them learn how to identify credible information.