
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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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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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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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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Last week the world once again witnessed an Islamic State’s use of at least one child bomber, perhaps two. A child between the ages of 12 and 14 was reportedly the culprit behind a suicide attack – blowing up the wedding of Besna and Nurettin Akdogan in Gaziantep, Turkey and killing 54 people on Aug.
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