People looking at the scientific world from the outside often see it as one dominated by facts, where scientists use a stepwise, systematic process ...
For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the
performance of students and employees fits what's known as the bell
curve — in mos...
Physicists have a grand theory that describes how tiny particles interact to form all the stuff we see in the universe — everything from planets ...
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The AP is reporting results from a group of Italian researchers using
equipment from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
that clai...
A giant and powerful digital camera is about to be shipped from a lab near Chicago to a telescope in Chile to study a mysterious part of the univ...
Two psychologists have been conducting experiments on inattentional blindness — how people fail to see things in front of them when they're focused o...
Psychologist Véronique Izard discusses a study that suggests Amazonian villagers with no math schooling are just as equipped to solve basic geometry ...
Surprising and exciting scientific findings capture our attention and captivate the press. But what if, at some point after a finding has been soundly...
NPR"S Robert Siegel talks to Alex Long, University of Tennessee law professor
who contends that Bob Dylan's song lyrics are used more than any other ...
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One percent of the U.S. population owns approximately 40 percent of the nation's wealth. That's a distribution that most Americans don't know about, ...
Education advocates point to a recent spate of test scores
that show the United States falling behind other nations. But what's the real
story?
...
I went to Cal Tech yesterday to hear a lecture by the mathematician
Dr. Yau. He spoke about his new book, The
Shape of Inner Space: String Theory an...
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Today, I went to Cal Tech to hear Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist, talk about his new book From Eternity to Here. His new book is about the nat...
"Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end." ~Immanuel Kant
“You are not thinking, you are merely being logical.” ~Ni...
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