Marie-Hélène Budworth

Social media is changing all kinds of things – including how we do research.  Take a look at this review in the New York Times of some work that was recently published in Science.   Researchers at Cornell looked at mood cycles of 2 million people as gleamed by their Twitter feeds.  Essentially they found that […]

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The Globe and Mail recently polled readers about their views on performance appraisals.  In their survey of  1337 people, they found that only 27% of people found appraisals to be a useful tool.  Another 20% believed it to be a necessary evil and a majority, 53%, described it as a total waste of time.  This […]

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This is an ‘eye catching’ topic that finds its way back into popular conversation every once in a while.  It would be outrageous, if it weren’t true.  Daniel Hamermesh published a piece in the New York Times on the weekend arguing that “ugly” people should be protected by some form of affirmative action.  This is […]

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