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/ 9 months agoHow educator Gloria Jean Merriex used dance, drills and devotion to turn around a failing elementary school in a year
A new documentary highlights teaching techniques of an educator who went the extra mile for her students.
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/ 9 months agoThe true cost of food is far higher than what you spend at the checkout counter
A new UN report finds that the true global cost of producing food is $12.7 trillion more than consumers pay at...
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/ 9 months agoMental fatigue has psychological triggers − new research suggests challenging goals can head it off
Setting specific, hard-to-reach goals seems to help people maintain motivation, while preventing them from feeling as drained by mental tasks.
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/ 9 months agoAnyone can play Tetris, but architects, engineers and animators alike use the math concepts underlying the game
People young and old love the classic video game Tetris. A working knowledge of the spatial reasoning concepts underlying Tetris can...
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/ 9 months agoGOP primary elections use flawed math to pick nominees
There are many ways bad mathematics interferes with our democracy. Assigning delegates is just one example.
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/ 9 months agoHow media coverage of presidential primaries fails voters and has helped Trump
In a general election, most people will vote for their party’s candidate. But in a primary, voters rely on media coverage...
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/ 9 months agoUS barrels toward another government shutdown showdown: 4 essential reads
Congress is again on the brink of a government shutdown only 3½ months after the last close call.
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/ 9 months agoBetty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ − even as she groused that she hoped Williamsburg would be flattened
No other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation. But Smith rarely saw her hometown through rose-colored...
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/ 9 months agoWhere does lightning strike? New maps pinpoint 36.8 million yearly ground strike points in unprecedented detail
A new study shows how often lightning strikes and how it behaves, often hitting the ground with multiple strikes from the...
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/ 9 months agoGifts that live on, from best bodices to money for bridge repairs: Women’s wills in medieval France give a glimpse into their surprising independence
European women’s rights expanded in early medieval cities, though they were still limited. Last wills and testaments were some of the...
