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...survey that reported having outsourced e-mail already, 57% said they had opted for Google, while 38% had partnered with Microsoft. In addition to e-mail, Google's free Apps for Education offering includes voice- and video-chatting capabilities as well as collaborative word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and website-creation software. Google Apps shed its beta, or trial, label in July, reassuring decision makers. Microsoft, which is refining its own Web-based Office software, grants every student 25 gb of free online storage space...
...public financing of political campaigns, for example—there’s another problem: You have no data—data you can easily download, that is. If you want to compare the margins of victory among state legislative races, you have to type the results into a spreadsheet yourself. And if you want to know how much Connecticut’s congressional delegation spends on franked mail, you have to go to a library—and check out a book...
...admission of that sort of nuance may wind up undermining part of the appeal of forecasts: how a single number can quickly jump from an economist's spreadsheet to a politician's stump speech or a businessman's PowerPoint presentation. "Forecasts satisfy a deep psychological need that we live in a somewhat predictable and controllable world," says Philip Tetlock, a professor of organizational behavior at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. "Those are essential stories. People just find the truth" - that the future is unknowable - "too dissonant...
...procrastinating type, The Crimson is here to help with a spreadsheet version of Cue Guide. You can sort by department, overall course rating, or perhaps more likely, difficulty rating...
Just click here to download the spreadsheet. Happy shopping...