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Bill Nye’s Doomsday Predictions on Overpopulation Get Lambasted 0
- Culture
- May 18, 2017
Bill Nye has been in the news a lot lately, mostly as the result of the hyperbolic predictions he is prone to making, many of which are backed up with very little science. Whether it’s on gender identity, global warming, or philosophy, Nye can often be found serving up “a gold mine of fallacies, half-truths,
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Are American Schools Creating a ‘Stupefied’ Generation?2
- Education
- May 18, 2017
In recent months, it has been reported that studying and performing Shakespeare has dramatic effects on the academic performance of young students. In fact, one school in Australia found their exam scores increased more than 40 percentage points after Shakespeare lessons were incorporated into the curriculum. Because of these dramatic effects, I took notice of
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One Simple Way to Raise Children to be Leaders 2
- Culture
- May 17, 2017
Whether they admit it or not, almost every parent entertains visions of greatness for their child from the moment he is born. He’ll be a businessman, or a college professor, or maybe even the President of the United States. Unfortunately, it’s often hard to move beyond daydreams and work toward making those imaginations become reality.
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Was ‘Last Man Standing’ Cancelled Because ABC Dislikes Conservative Values?0
- Culture
- May 17, 2017
Turn on Saturday Night Live and you will find Melissa McCarthy dressed as White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and making fun of the Trump Administration. Or odds are you will at least see some skit mocking right-of-center America. And that’s not unusual for TV today. That’s why it is so refreshing for conservatives to
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‘Cheers’ Totally Predicted the Obama and Trump Campaigns 0
- Culture
- May 17, 2017
The television sitcom Cheers has always been one of my guilty pleasures. Next to Seinfeld, I consider it the best sitcom of my lifetime. After about a 20-year hiatus, I recently started watching Cheers reruns on Netflix. A few nights a week, on nights when my wife puts the kids to bed, I watch
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Barbara Oakley Explains One Huge Flaw in U.S. Education 0
- Education
- May 17, 2017
What does an expert in learning think about how to learn math (and other things for that matter)? Barbara Oakley is the author of A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra) and Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential; she is also a distinguished
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