Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# science
The right manufactured a free speech crisis on college campuses and President Trump may be giving them a tool to hold the nation’s R&D labs hostage while demanding the spotlight.
# politics
The media and boomers are obsessed with millennial and college phenomena that are barely a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things.
# education
Tenure is not a magical keep-your-job-forever-no-matter-what card. It's vital protection for scientists whose research might not sit well with ideologues and partisan tribalists on college boards.
# education
The trajectory of American higher education is simply unsustainable and something has to give sooner rather than later.
# sex
AAU's survey of inappropriate sexual behavior did not go smoothly and its results raise a lot of questions about both their methodology and college culture.
# politics
Bureaucrats generally don't like creative, fair solutions to complicated problems, so it's no surprise they're making a mess of social activism on campus.
# education
If taxpayers are going to pay for college, we'll have to make sure that a college education actually yields gainful employment.
# education
Companies need colleges to educate their next generation of workers. Yet they're refusing to work with them, or even train their employees for that matter.
# tech
Coding is a useful skill, but some Silicon Valley luminaries are tackling their mission to teach kids how to write apps with a little too much zeal and overly rosy stats.
# education
If you're going to attend a foreign college, make sure you know what you're getting into and pick your host country wisely.