HigherEdFilter: Who proposed that US college athletes should get scholarships that they could use after their sports career ends? [more inside]
posted on Mar 30, 2008 - 4 answers

Help me make sense of the industrial relations reform (WorkChoices) that has taken place in Australia since the last federal election. [more inside]
posted on Dec 9, 2006 - 3 answers

Linguists: What's the history of 'standard forms' of languages? [more inside]
posted on May 14, 2006 - 17 answers

I'm looking for a jokey piece on the Internet which is a treatise on how to reform English which gradually changes into German as you read. [more inside]
posted on Apr 27, 2006 - 7 answers

Did the President's Advisory Panel on Tax Reform radically change their plans at the last minute? I read through the first few chapters of their report (released November 1), and then googled to try to find some independent analysis. Several of the top links are angry articles from around October 14, talking about how the panel is going to recommend nothing more than a couple of minor tweaks to programs to pay for repealing the AMT, and won't "seek a wholesale reform of our tax code." But the report that came out on November 1 seems to recommend drastic changes, essentially throwing out most of the existing tax code and rewriting it from scratch. (Not that that's a bad thing.) What happened between October 14 and November 1?
posted on Nov 4, 2005 - 6 answers

The America I believe in is broken. What are the most effective things I can do to help fix it? [more inside]
posted on Sep 29, 2005 - 32 answers

A colleague emailed me with an idea for a computer game to illustrate and educate about health care reform in the US, something a la Sim City, but much simpler, just interactive. How would I go about finding and contacting companies or design groups to create the game and get bids? [more inside]
posted on Jun 10, 2005 - 4 answers

Religionfilter: what percentage of Jews in the US observe the Sabbath every week? (or how many out of the total). Thanks!
posted on Jun 14, 2004 - 8 answers