learning
Brainwave Testing Can Help Diagnose Dyslexia Before Kids Learn to Read
For the first time, researchers have discovered biomarkers that can predict dyslexia in kids.
Yet More Science Backs Musical Education as a Path to Better Brains
Researchers find better executive functioning in musically-trained kids and adults.
Good, Evil, and Canada's Aboriginal Kidnappings - An Interview with Adrianne Harun
After I purchased Adrianne's book, I went into the parking lot to find my car battery had run dead. I went back inside, sat down in the bookstore café, and looked at VICE.com, where I saw <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-aboriginal...
This Tanzanian E-Learning Enterprise Is Beating MOOCs by Going Local
Despite the promise of MOOCs in developing countries, only local content appears to resonate.
Scientists Found a Genetic Switch to Reverse Aging in Neurons
Researchers at Yale found a genetic means to teach an old mouse new tricks.
How Silicon Valley Could Save (or Delete) Education
Our college education system is busted. State universities are horribly underfunded. Education's expensive. Robots want your future job. But it’s cool, because Silicon Valley is on the case.
Monkeys, Not Just Humans, Can Teach Each Other Better Ways to Use Tools
Put another nail in Descartes' old, rotting coffin.
Relax, Underachievers: It's Not Your Brain, It's Your Poorly-Designed School
A new study from researchers in the UK suggests that the design of space around you has significant impact on how you learn. Which was totally why you ended up with that D+ in pre calculus, right?
More Than Assholes
A new study explains the indexing method that's on the hunt for the web's anti-trolls.
Girls and College
Power structures are wildly different in a college setting than in high school in that the most important girl is a little hedgehog from some shit town where she was Max Fisher But Worse.
Want to Learn New Things? Go to Sleep
Much of the animal training you see, whether it's at SeaWorld or at a puppy class, is rooted in classical conditioning, the kind of training Pavlov demonstrated when he showed that dogs can be made to salivate at the sound of a bell that repeatedly...