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  • Dilbert Cartoon on Climate Change Prompts Rebuttal from Yale

    Dilbert Cartoon on Climate Change Prompts Rebuttal from Yale1

    A communications group at Yale University has put out a video (see below) that seems to be a rebuttal to a Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams poking fun at climate scientists and their misplaced confidence in models. The video is full of impressive-looking scientists talking about charts and data and whatnot. It probably cost a

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  • Different Parties, Different Planets

    Different Parties, Different Planets0

    When people try to explain why the United States is so politically polarized now, they frequently refer to the concept of “echo chambers.” That’s the idea that people on social media interact only with like-minded people, reinforcing each other’s beliefs. When people don’t encounter competing ideas, the argument goes, they become less willing to cooperate

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  • Differences in Outcome Do Not Imply Discrimination

    Differences in Outcome Do Not Imply Discrimination0

    People often claim that differences in outcomes between two racial or ethnic groups are proof of discrimination. For example, Jews account for just 0.2 percent of the world’s population, but they make up over 20 percent of all Nobel Prize laureates. Clearly, the argument goes, there must be some conspiracy afoot. The same line of

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  • Did You Know a Famous Philosopher Just Died?

    Did You Know a Famous Philosopher Just Died?8

    Had you been a Greek or an educated Roman, you would have known the names of certain philosophers. Any Greek would have known of Socrates, Plato or Aristotle, and maybe even have been able to tell you a few of their important ideas. But if you asked a person on the street today to name

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  • Did We Mishear Neil Armstrong’s Famous First Words on the Moon?

    Did We Mishear Neil Armstrong’s Famous First Words on the Moon?0

    On July 20, 1969, an estimated 650 million people watched in suspense as Neil Armstrong descended a ladder towards the surface of the Moon. As he took his first steps, he uttered words that would be written into history books for generations to come: “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.”

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  • Did U.S. Schools Just Use Poverty as an Excuse for Poor Performance?

    Did U.S. Schools Just Use Poverty as an Excuse for Poor Performance?0

    When it comes to international education rankings, the U.S. ranks 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math. Unfortunately, the U.S. accounts for these abysmal scores by saying that our large number of poor and disadvantaged students are to blame. But as a new study from the OECD (the organization responsible for the

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