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You are here Georgia Tech Prof. Resigns, Cites Politicization of Academia 0
- Education
- January 10, 2017
A climate scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Judith Curry, abruptly resigned last week citing “craziness in the field of climate science” and the politicization of academia. Via her blog, Climate Etc.: Effective January 1, I have resigned my tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech…. Technically, my resignation is a retirement event, since I
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Study: Textbooks Are Super Biased 0
- Culture
- January 10, 2017
Unless I miss my guess, many of us have never been huge fans of textbooks. They’re boring. Impersonal. And as a new study published in Current Psychology reports, textbooks may also be… biased. Researchers Christopher Ferguson, Jeffrey Brown, and Amanda Torres set out to explore this bias specifically in regard to the basic psychology textbooks
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Did Plato Get His Ideas from the Bible?2
- History
- January 9, 2017
T.S. Eliot once wrote that “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” If that’s the case, then according to some influential past authorities, Plato was a “mature poet” when it comes to his ideas on God and creation. The other day I was reading St. Augustine’s (354-430) De Doctrina Christiana—a treatise that played an enormous role
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Why I Love School Choice 0
- Education
- January 9, 2017
This fall my 5-year-old daughter will go off to kindergarten. I’ve known this day was coming for years, but somehow I still managed to be wholly unprepared for the event. By “unprepared”, I’m not talking about the sadness that naturally accompanies these periodic reminders that one’s child must eventually grow up, but about the decision
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What Puerto Rico Can Teach Us About Minimum Wage Laws 0
- Economics
- January 9, 2017
This week, twenty states began implementing minimum wage increases that were passed during 2016. As the country waits to see how these increased wages this will affect the economy, the U.S. territories have already provided us with a grim example. After the 2007 Fair Minimum Wage Act was passed, each of the fifty states was required to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour in 2006,
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A Lesson We All Can Learn from the Chicago Torture Case 0
- Philosophy
- January 9, 2017
The kidnaping and torturing of a white, special-needs teenager by four black teenagers in Chicago has horrified the country. Details of the attack point to racial hatred, but Matt Walsh wonders if something “worse” also was behind the depravity of the attack. Walsh noted that on the Facebook video of the attack, the attackers weren’t
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