education
09/04/2018 - 16:58
On the wall is a poster of Bertrand Russell with the quotation: ‘Most people would sooner die than think, and most of them do.’ There is a... →
09/03/2017 - 18:29
The technology-transfer company of the Hebrew University, Yissum Research Development Company, has signed an agreement with Award... →
18/11/2016 - 16:56
Quasney's frustrations will sound familiar to millions of students around the world. Researchers like to think that nothing matters in... →
02/11/2016 - 13:35
Parental lifespan is a “proxy” for one’s life expectancy, the journal says, because previous studies have also revealed a correlation... →
17/03/2016 - 15:53
That generation expected to have job security, to marry young, to buy a house – perhaps a summer house, too – and finally retire with... →
11/10/2015 - 12:43
In these times of paralysis in Washington, with yet another government shutdown that had been looming merely kicked down the road, it is... →
07/10/2015 - 16:05
The researchers collected data on 412,921 people from 70 countries between 2002 and 2013. GDP was used as a measure of economic development... →
26/07/2015 - 17:35
In this same essay, Vargas Llosa lays down some key definitions. He does not approve of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin’s... →
20/06/2015 - 13:54
The competition’s task is superficially simple, says Rosalind Potts at UCL. “We wanted to know if you had an hour to study a list of 80... →
20/06/2015 - 13:45
Crowdfunding for Good
The notion that crowdfunding can play a role in financing education, and not just experimental films and wacky... →
17/02/2015 - 14:44
For the first half of the twentieth century, researchers actually thought that bilingualism put a child at a disadvantage, something that... →
11/05/2014 - 15:41
The study involved 769 people at least 23 years old and who had been followed for at least a year after their injury. Participants were... →