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Should gifted students go to a separate school?(theconversation.com)
175 points by tokenadult 10y ago|371 comments
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From MIT Press: 10 Topics Every 21st Century Citizen Should Know About(wbur.org)
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We Must Learn How to Talk about Science--Fast(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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Can the mind really heal the body? The placebo “healing” narrative revisited(sciencebasedmedicine.org)
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by tokenadult 10y ago
This has been anticipated for a while (I recall posting comments about this years ago) as multiply antibiotic-resistant microbes have been spreading in India, where the woman mentioned in the article kindly submitted here had traveled. htt
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Sugar, explained(vox.com)
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One of These Drones Could Save Your Life(nbcnews.com)
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Can a flu shot wear off if you get it too early? Perhaps, scientists say(statnews.com)
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Text Your Way to College(nytimes.com)
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by tokenadult 10y ago
I like his wording of Euclid's classic proof of the infinity of prime numbers. That's good exposition to start off the article.
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Cancer death rate has dropped again. But it’s still higher for men than women(washingtonpost.com)
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How (and how fast) do new species form?(whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com)
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Why Progress Doesn't Always Feel Like Progress(bloomberg.com)
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by tokenadult 10y ago
a decent home (2000 sq ft, good neighborhood, reasonable commute) We have lived for more than a decade with four children in a house with fewer finished square feet of floor space. I'm curious about what "good neighborhood"
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A Month Without Sugar(nytimes.com)
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by tokenadult 10y ago
Summer 2008, and widely criticized from then to now. I wonder if a professor of English can ever have the same perspective as a professor of biology or a professor of mathematics. I don't think he has made the case that higher educatio
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by tokenadult 10y ago
Most hiring by most companies is not based on research. There is a huge body of research on how to hire effectively, part of the filed called industrial and organizational psychology, that goes back a full century all over the world. There
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How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail(scientificamerican.com)
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by tokenadult 10y ago
The home page of the site hosting the webpage submitted here, "Mad in America: Science, Psychiatry, and Social Justice" looks to put a lot more emphasis on the social justice, as the authors published on the site define that, than
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Science journalist says go easy on Bigfoot, bash on mammograms instead(andrewgelman.com)
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by tokenadult 10y ago
You shouldn't invoke Turkheimer's three laws paper (which is a good paper) to make a statement with which Turkheimer would disagree. Turkheimer certainly agrees with the factual observation that formal education (which is part of
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America's educational excellence: We've exhausted all other options(edexcellence.net)
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by tokenadult 10y ago
The response from Jerry Coyne, a professor of biology who has literally written the book about evolution, is definitive. https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/robert-w...
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David H. Yang to Receive 2017 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize(ams.org)
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Obama-era techies weigh staying under Trump(politico.com)
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AI Has Beaten Humans at Lip-Reading(technologyreview.com)
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Sex as an Algorithm: The Theory of Evolution Under the Lens of Computation(cacm.acm.org)
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Job Interviews Are Useless(bloomberg.com)
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It’s Not a Startup Visa, but It’s Close(bloomberg.com)
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Hacking into the Science Publicity Machine(bloomberg.com)
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