Animal Communication Insights Elephants’ Unique Communication African savanna elephants exhibit a sophisticated form of communication, potentially using specific calls directed at individual members of their family. Joyce Poole’s decades-long research revealed that elephants may assign names to one another based on the acoustic structure of their calls. A statistical model analyzing nearly 500 … Read more
Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election The Intercept by Matthew Cole Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained … Read more
The Academic’s Guide to Social Media Author discusses book on how and why academics should use social media for scholarly purposes. July 22, 2016 By Carl Straumsheim Writing about social media is “dangerous,” according to Mark Carrigan, a sociologist and academic technologist at the University of Warwick, in Britain. In the time to take … Read more