The Missing 19 Percent: An Investigation of Part Time Faculty at Western University

Recently, the Western Gazette (Canada’s only daily student newspaper!) published an article entitled: “The Precarious Path to Professorship”. The article spoke of the ongoing issue of contract academic staff (CAS) teaching an increasing number of classes at Canadian universities. Before I delve into the situation at Western, I do need to comment on the article linked in…

Thumbs in the Shadows: The Story of Fake Likes and Click Farms

Like some of you currently do or have done in the past, I manage a Facebook page. Some of you may have done it to promote your own business, a client’s, or just made one up for fun. If you are the page manager for a business, one of the common things you hear people…

The Age of Misinformation II: Watching a Documentary Does Not (Necessarily) Make You Smart

In our age of armchair science, no media outlet provides a lightweight intellectual experience more than the documentary. What were once films of purpose and discovery have been affected by a new breed of documentary, which use pop science and scare tactics to deliver their message. A documentary used to tell a side of a…