Auburn, UAB, Alabama place among U.S. News’ best online programs
AL.com – Jan. 10
Auburn University, UAB and the University of Alabama all placed in the top 25 in multiple categories in the just released 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings. The rankings evaluate degree-granting online programs at regionally accredited institutions and can be seen here. . . . . Alabama was 14 among non-MBA online graduate business programs.
Some Animals Don’t Fart, Say Scientists Whose Salaries Are Paid For By Your Taxes
Men’s Health – Jan. 10
Scientists around the world have teamed up to carry out one of mankind’s most important missions: compiling a spreadsheet that helpfully sorts animals based on whether or not they fart. Since you’ve surely wondered if, say, salamanders or domestic hedgehogs indeed expel gas out of their anuses, real researchers—with actual doctorates and everything—have taken it upon themselves to cast their actual work aside in favor of editing the “Does It Fart?” database. And we thank them for it, because they’re doing God’s work … Seizing his moment, University of Alabama Ph.D. candidate Nicholas Caruso created the “Does It Fart?” spreadsheet to gather all the scientists’ answers in one place.
Gizmodo – Jan. 10
Washington Post – Jan. 10
WeatherBrains 572
YouTube – Jan. 3
Dr. Laura Myers, from CAPS at the University of Alabama, talks with Birmingham weatherman James Spann and others about social media in weather situations.