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Are digital devices ruining our ability to have deep and meaningful conversations, emphasizing desperate and superficial connections instead? How can we sustain healthy relationships?
The right brain training regimen that harnessed the brain’s natural plasticity and helped to strengthen these specific cognitive systems might help.
What conditions are scientists looking for in their search for life on another planet? The presence of water is key, explains Bill Nye, aka The Science Guy.
The regime of standardized testing in the nation's public schools is expanding. Soon, children as young as 5 will devote weeks of the school year to preparing and sitting for multiple-choice exams. What is a parent to do?
To what extent should our desire for Internet freedom allow the industry to operate outside of laws that are meant to protect the public good. Whose responsibility is it to protect children?
This is follow-up to last week's post on crowdfunding and the opportunities it could provide for the so called teacherpreneurs. Let’s take it as an alternative to the traditional forms […]
If Google's lobbying spree continues, it will outspend all the tobacco companies and major banks. And with new cyber security bills before Congress, the fight for Internet freedom remains.
For Washington, DC readers, please join us and spread the word about the presentation tomorrow (Wed. April 25) at American University by Timothy Caulfield, among Canada’s leading experts in the […]
With bookstores vanishing, the Pulitzer committee skimping on Pulitzers, and the Amazon dragon twining its bright yellow coils around every publisher on Earth, the book industry finds itself in dire peril. But lo! What […]
What is the Big Idea? From Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs, America has always been a land of inventors and tinkerers, according to Adam Davidson, economic columnist for The New […]
Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet, says you can’t rely on “the media” or the internet to control your information consumption. Here he suggests a few pieces of software that have helped him to regulate his own information diet.
It looks like a new front in the “war on women” has opened up, and it involves America’s nuns. A friend of mine who belongs to a women-led Catholic community […]
The French know a thing or two about cooking food so might they better understand how to eat it, too? Their midday lunch breaks make people more sociable and more productive.
Is Facebook making us lonely? No! Sometimes there are actually clear answers to rhetorical headline questions. Claude Fischer, a professor of sociology at Berkeley, gets empirical in the Boston Review. […]
New draft guidelines drawn up by the German government say that future military missions should not be focused on spreading Western conceptions of democracy
Americans too often forget just how young a country we still are in comparison to the countries of Europe. Like any other youth, we copied our elders growing up. Our […]
Vuzix develops video eyewear and personal display devices for a wide range of applications. Their Smart Glasses allow the user to view video in both 2-D and 3-D as well utilize […]
Researchers in the field of school technology leadership are focused on how technology changes education (for better or worse) and how leaders can ameliorate those changes. With the exception of […]
In honor of the birthday (and death date, we think) of the greatest writer in the English language, today, April 23rd, is Talk Like Shakespeare Day. In cities from Chicago […]
William Shakespeare: Playwright, language innovator, father of product placement