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Kentucky Biblical Museum Ad Campaign Features Dinosaurs
A Kentucky museum where dinosaurs roam the biblical Garden of Eden is unveiling a national billboard campaign featuring the...
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An Entrepreneurial Approach to Reforming Higher Education
There’s ample evidence that a more entrepreneurial approach to postsecondary education is overdue. While some pioneering ventures are under...
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South Korea Surrenders to Creationist Demands
Mention creationism, and many scientists think of the United States, where efforts to limit the teaching of evolution have...
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Baby We Were Born to Learn
Researchers are calling it the “Goldilocks Effect”: Turns out that babies’ brains are wired to focus on “just right”...
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The Benefits of Making It Harder to Learn
Results of a recent experiment demonstrated that students who read material in difficult, unfamiliar fonts learned it more deeply than...
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U.S. Students Flock to Graduate Science Programs
And now for some good news. The data are strangely absent from most discussions about the inadequacies of science...
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Creationism Rears Its Ugly Head—Again and Again and Again
Michael Ruse blogs over at The Chronicle’s Brainstorm: Here we go again. The latest news on the fighting-Creationism front is...
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Cultural Beliefs, Not Science Education Split Climate Views
Global warming skeptics are not less educated about science but rather use their knowledge to affirm their predetermined beliefs....
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American Physics Dreams Deferred
When three American astronomers won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, for discovering that the expansion of the...
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Global Body Seeks Unified Approach to Assessing Science
The leaders of about 50 national research agencies in both the developed and developing worlds have announced the establishment...