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Has Facebook Really Been Suppressing Conservatives?0
- Politics
- May 9, 2016
It’s a safe guess that readers will not see this story on Facebook’s trending news section, but it’s still worth sharing. Gizmodo, a popular tech blog, reports that former Facebook employees admitted that “Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential ‘trending’ news section.” Among the
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Is Depression Even More Biological Than We Think?0
- Culture
- May 9, 2016
For a long time, mental illness was widely misunderstood and stigmatized. What was actually epilepsy was believed to manifest demonic possession; women who were really schizophrenics were cast out as witches. And the many people who were mired in what was once called “melancholy,” and is now called “clinical depression,” were often believed to be
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The Top Thing Parents Can Do to Turn Kids into Successful Adults 0
- Culture
- May 9, 2016
Last week, Business Insider ran an interesting article listing 13 things parents can do to turn their child into a well-adjusted, successful adult. The first thing on the list? “They make their kids do chores.” But if childhood chores are truly a predictor of future success, then it seems the U.S. is about to see
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3 Things U.S. Schools Can Learn from Finland 0
- Education
- May 9, 2016
Fulbright Scholar William Doyle once again wrote about his experiences as a U.S. transplant in the Finnish education system. According to Doyle, Finland – a nation whose high scores on the international PISA exam have amazed many – has a number of practices from which the U.S. education system might benefit. A few of these
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Can You Recognize America’s First Political Cartoon?0
- Education
- May 9, 2016
The “Join Us or Die” snake is believed to be the first cartoon to run in a newspaper in American history. The cartoon was published in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. Historians believe Franklin himself created the cartoon, which depicts a snake cut into eight pieces above the words “JOIN, or DIE.”
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How These Cute Creatures Confound Evolutionary Theory 0
- Science
- May 7, 2016
We often hear that opposing the “scientific consensus” on this-or-that topic is benighted. Sometimes it can be that. But sometimes it isn’t—especially when scientific findings themselves contradict an established scientific consensus. For at least a century, biologists have believed that the more “genetic diversity” there is within a species, the better able that species is to adapt to environmental change, and thus thrive
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