Casey Cep argues that the movement to disconnect from the Internet is pointless: Unplugging seems motivated by two contradictory concerns: efficiency and enlightenment. Those who seek efficiency rarely want to change their lives, only to live more productively; rather than eliminating technology, they seek to regulate their use of it through Internet-blocking programs like Freedom […]
David Berri, using the example of the Kansas men’s basketball team, says they are: To illustrate, prior to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, Embiid had produced 4.67 wins for the Kansas Jayhawks (calculated essentially according this approach used for the NBA). Using college revenue data from the U.S. Department of Education, economist Robert Brown (for […]
Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien was largely responsible for the resurgence of interest in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, so it’s only fitting that his translation from 1926 is finally being published. Tolkien’s son Christopher, who edited the work said: “It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his […]
Given my inability to do complex math, it’s especially troubling to learn that scientists at Cornell have discovered that flies are doing calculus: At Cornell University, for instance, researchers have been investigating how the flies recover when their flight is momentarily disturbed. Among their conclusions: a small group of fly neurons is solving calculus problems, […]
Michael Petrilli argues that we should tell a lot more students that college is not for them. He writes: But what if such a cautionary sermon is exactly what some teenagers need? What if encouraging students to take a shot at the college track—despite very long odds of crossing its finish line—does them more harm […]