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.
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Today’s media is addicted to contrarian takes on everything. And those takes are almost always just attention-grabbing clickbait.
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Debunking scams and disinformation has become exponentially harder. We need to dig deep into why people believe what they do, and how social media exploits their fear and anger.
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We live in a world science fiction and dreams built. Then we let the worst among us turn it into a nightmare.
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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.
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The trajectory of American higher education is simply unsustainable and something has to give sooner rather than later.
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No Child Left Behind's series of tests was supposed to help American education. It did the exact opposite.
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If taxpayers are going to pay for college, we'll have to make sure that a college education actually yields gainful employment.
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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.
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Studies about America's supposed shortfalls in STEM education have been taken at face value for years. But a thorough review casts doubt on their methods and conclusions.
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We're ignoring the fact that the professors who teach future generations are in deep financial holes and can't seem to get out.