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Do uniforms spur achievements?
According to this study, "the results do not suggest any significant association between school uniform policies and achievement." One of the most common proposals put forth for reform of the American system of education is to require school uniform...
Inventing tall stories.
Psychological research increasingly shows that inventiveness is fundamental to the normal operation of the mind. Aikaterini Fotopoulou is a research psychologist at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London, who specialises in confabulation. Sh...
How does the brain learn to read?
One of the most intriguing findings of this new science of reading is that the literate brain actually has two distinct pathways for reading. One pathway is direct and efficient, and accounts for the vast majority of reading comprehension -- we see a...
How math proved useful to Russia
Three factors saved math. First, Russian math happened to be uncommonly strong right when it might have suffered the most, in the 1930s. Second, math proved too obscure for the sort of meddling Joseph Stalin most liked to exercise: It was simply ...
Why is the Earth uninhabitable?
Charlie Stross plays a thought-experiment I want you to imagine that, instead of being a perplexed mostly-hairless primate reading a blog, you're the guiding intelligence of an interstellar robot probe. You've been entrusted with the...
The Magpie Reader
Simply put,the internet has reduced our attention span:The internet has evolved a new species of magpie reader, gathering bright little buttons of knowledge, before hopping on to the next shiny thing.More here. The Codicil...
