Comics offer radical opportunity to blend scholarship and art
I am a historian and, a few years ago, I collaborated with the artist Liz Clarke to produce a history in comic-book form. Together, we created Abina and the Important Men (2012), a graphic history of a 19th-century court case in colonial West Africa. Dozens of graphic...
Data science is a growing field. Here’s how to train people to do it
Riaan de Jongh, North-West University The world is inundated with data. There’s a virtual tsunami of data moving around the globe, renewing itself daily. Take just the global financial markets. They generate vast amounts of data – share prices, commodity prices,...
Overleaf Tips
Overleaf tips. How to find a shareable link. How to find a word count. How to use Track Changes. How to use comments. How to auto compile.
Legal standards invoke the ‘reasonable person’. Who is it?
Countless legal standards ask what the ‘reasonable person’ would do. But who is this person? The reasonable person is not just the average person. That’s easily seen. Sometimes, average people do unreasonable things. This insight has led theorists to propose the...