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Why Did Japan’s Massacre of Disabled Gone Unnoticed?0
- Culture
- August 30, 2016
On July 26, 2016 a man wielding a knife broke into Tsukui Yamayuriena, a home for the disabled outside of Tokyo and brutally murdered 19 people as they slept, while injuring another 26. Afterwards, he turned himself in to a local police station, with the explanation: “It is better that the disabled disappear.” Disability advocates
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Why Slow Drivers Should Get Out of the Left Lane 0
- Education
- August 30, 2016
For the second week in a row, I find myself approvingly citing Ezra Klein. This week the Vox editor is featured in a cleverly-produced video that focuses on one of my pet peeves: people who drive slowly in the left lane. (For the record, driving the speed limit qualifies as relatively slow.) As the video
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QUIZ: How Well Do You Know World History?0
- Education
- August 30, 2016
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What Should be the Goal of Education?0
- Culture
- August 30, 2016
With the start of school just around the corner, Phi Delta Kappa has just released their annual poll on American attitudes towards the public schools. This year, one of the questions asked was: “What do you think should be the main goal of a public school education: to prepare students academically, to prepare them for
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How Music Training Speeds Up Brain Development In Children 40
- Culture
- August 29, 2016
Observing a pianist at a recital – converting musical notations into precisely timed finger movements on a piano – can be a powerful emotional experience. As a researcher of neuroscience and a pianist myself, I understand that the mastering of this skill not only takes practice, but also requires complex coordination of many different brain
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What Most Freshman Will Experience Their First Week in College 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2016
It took less than a week into the 2016-2017 academic year for several outrageous stories to surface on college campuses. At the University of Texas at Austin, thousands of students protested the state’s new campus carry law by wielding sex toys in a campaign called “Cocks Not Glocks.” The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee told students that
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