Rehumanizing School
Back in 2021? I was done. Not burned out exactly. Demoralized. There’s a difference. I wrote about it then. Demoralization happens when the work...
Heat cooks brains
Heat messes with heads.
Take southern pied babblers in South Africa.
They’re smart birds. Black and white. Usually quick learners. But turn up the heat...
CRISPR’s Safer Sibling: Editing the Switch, Not the Code
Amber Salzman never meant to take the job. She interviewed with Epicrispr Biotechnologies because she owed a favor to a recruiter. A startup CEO...
Ancient Cave Paintings Hold Human DNA For Millennia
Painting leaves a mark. Not just pigment on stone. DNA. Too.
Scientists finally pulled human DNA from ancient cave art. A first. The trick turns...
New Voices. New Tech. Same Messy Classroom Reality
AI is eating education alive.
Well. Not eating. Rewriting.
The rules of teaching and learning are bending, breaking, reforming. Schools aren't just tweaking lessons. They’re overhauling...
Reading with Their Hands: How One Ohio District Closed the Pandemic Literacy Gap for...
Elementary school isn't just ABCs. It's playground politics, times tables, and the sheer exhaustion of sitting still. Now add a new language to that...
Pigeon livers as compasses? Scientists aren’t buying it yet
A new theory thinks it solved a puzzle that has bothered biologists for decades. How do homing pigeons read Earth’s magnetic field? The answer:...
Ramy RC Built the World’s Largest 777. Then Gave the Keys to Tyler Perry
Remote control planes are toys.
This one is not.
Popular YouTuber Ramy RC just flew the largest RC version of a Boeing 779-9X on the planet.
And...
Two Deaths, One Near-Miss: Why the EPA Wants to Undo Safety Rules
Fifty thousand people went home to Garden Grove, California. They survived.
Just across the country in Washington state, nine people did not. Or maybe they...
Wemby Defies Physics in the Playoffs
Science has answers. Most of the time. But then Victor Wembanyama exists, and suddenly the equations get weird.
Casual fans call him an Alien. That’s...
