David Epstein’s new book, Range, argues that starting a specialized path early and doggedly sticking to it may not be as rewarding as trying a variety of things and quitting the unfulfilling ones. Updated at 12:40 p.m. on May 31, 2019. Read the full version here.
In the early ’90s, a New Zealand man named Neil Fleming decided to sort through something that had puzzled him during his time monitoring classrooms as a school inspector. Read the full version here.
Do you get excited and energized by the possibility of learning something new and complex? Do you get turned on by nuance? Do you get really stimulated by new ideas and imaginative scenarios? Read the full version here.
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Turns out that the most important aptitude for coders is not math or engineering but . . . the ability to learn languages. This is a big deal! Our cultural and educational practices favor math and engineering whizzes for lucrative coding careers. Read the full version here.
It becomes annoyingly easy to knock over a shampoo bottle when it’s nearly empty. This is an easily observed and curiosity-provoking phenomenon that, according to Lehigh University physics professor Jerome Licini, yields insights into center-of-mass and impacts. Read the full version here.
This video does a good job summing up what’s laid out above and goes on to discuss what we’ll get into below. In the beginning, the Industrial Designer would optimize a product to make it more desirable. Read the full version here.
Consider the two words computer and science. The first’s gifts to the world are huge and range from the lifesaving ubiquity of electronic medical records to the opportunity to get in a virtual bar fight at any time of the day on Twitter. Read the full version here.
Medical school is expensive for everyone. But for low-income students, the hidden costs can be prohibitive. David Velasquez learned his first clinical lesson early on: The health care system wasn’t made to care for people like him. Mr. Read the full version here.
Why boys crack up at rape jokes, think having a girlfriend is “gay,” and still can’t cry—and why we need to give them new and better models of masculinity Updated at 3:32 p.m. ET on December 17, 2019. Read the full version here.