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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
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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
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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
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Solving The Conundrum Of Multiple Choice Tests
NPR: According to just published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, the answer — perhaps surprisingly — can sometimes be choice D. But it depends on how multiple choice questions are designed and deployed. Here’s
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Tiny Foragers: How Do We Know What’s Safe To Eat?
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 young kids around, and most
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Let Them Throw Cake: Messy Kids May Be Faster Learners
TIME: Parents who constantly find themselves wiping food off the high chair, the table, the walls, the ceiling and even the dog after a meal should take heart. A new study suggests that in making
