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To Smoosh Peas Is to Learn
The New York Times: Everybody loves a messy eater. In a study published this month in Developmental Science, 16-month-old children were taught new names for foods like jelly and syrup, then tested to see if Visit Page
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How to Make Online Learning Effective
*APS and the Psychonomic Society jointly oversee the William K. & Katherine W. Estes Fund, established in honor of Estes and his wife. The fund supports the development of new programs to support mathematical issues Visit Page
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The Elevator Talk
“So tell me what you do.” A common enough request from a potential colleague who missed a job talk, the leader of an interdisciplinary grant team, a new member of upper administration, a development officer. Visit Page
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Missing From Science Class
The New York Times: A big reason America is falling behind other countries in science and math is that we have effectively written off a huge chunk of our population as uninterested in those fields Visit Page
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Tiny Foragers: How Do We Know What’s Safe to Eat?
The Huffington Post: It’s the holiday season, and we’ll soon be decorating our home with greenery — holly sprigs, poinsettia, maybe a mistletoe, and of course the tree, probably some kind of spruce. We’ll have Visit Page
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Standardized tests discriminate against the next Einsteins and Teslas
Quartz: At 16, Albert Einstein wrote his first scientific paper titled “The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields.” This was the result of his famous gedanken experiment in which he visually imagined chasing after Visit Page
