The Scholar as Futurologist - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Should the CIA director, Leon Panetta, be replaced by the director of a university press? Panetta admitted in recent Congressional testimony that the CIA needs to do a better job of identifying "triggers" for uprisings in places like Egypt. Osman writes that "there are real triggers for chaos in Egyptian society today, as I have demonstrated throughout this book." So why not the scholar as futurologist? Maybe specialists published by serious presses prove the best predictors of what will be in our complicated international world." --

The Scholar as Futurologist - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Cenusus Data:A Post-Katrina Look at Housing in the New Orleans Area - Random Samplings

Here's a nice example of how census data can be used...

A Post-Katrina Look at Housing in the New Orleans Area - Random Samplings