Stories by tokenadult

Uncommon Schools Network Closes the Achievement Gap

Driverless cars promise to reduce accidents, revolutionise transport

Three kinds of big data

Dumb Money: More of Silicon Valley’s Idiotic Investments

U.S. Census: "Race" has "social definition" and isn't anthropology or genetics

Keith Devlin: What is mathematical thinking?

To the relief of physicists, time really does have a preferred direction

Educators Evaluate Khan Academy's 'Flipped Classrooms' Idea

Do Ghosts Exist?

The Internet Anagram Server Generates Anagrams for "Hacker News"

What happens to retracted papers on non-publisher websites (eg PubMed Central)?

The price of refusing science-based cancer therapy

Obama talks beer, money, and war in online chat session

Education gaps explain most metropolitan unemployment in past few years (.PDF)

Looking Back at TWA Flight 800

Letting daylight in: review reviewers and maximize transparency in science

The Power of Replication – Bem's Psi Research

Overtreatment Is Taking a Harmful Toll

Tom Knight, Godfather Of Synthetic Biology, On How To Learn Something New

Self-Help for Skeptics: Train Your Brain to Be Positive