Predictors of Success: Toward Accurate Screening that Can’t Be Gamed
I ate dinner tonight at an amazing restaurant in Koreatown in New York that has a city-block long buffet. The price for dinner was based on height, with one price for those over 4 1/2 feet and lower ones for […]
Is e-learning “Bad” Education?
The Dutch Education Minister, Ronald Plasterk, wrote in a letter to Parliament that the wearing of face-covering clothing was incompatible with the education process because of the importance of non-verbal communication” and that the ban should extend to students, teachers, […]
Crash Course on Sarah Palin
Yesterday’s Boston Globe reported that “the American electorate is taking a crash course in Sarah Palin,” John McCain’s running mate. Much of this, no surprise, is being conducted on the Internet. Websites, blogs, tweets—everyone seems to have something to say […]
Wandering Ants and the Destruction of Boundaries
One of the most moving museum exhibits I ever saw was Yukinori Yanagi’s The World Flag Ant Farm, which consists of interconnecting boxes filled with sand in the pattern of national flags in which ants travel, transporting food and sand. […]