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Your baby is doing little physics experiments all the time, according to a new study
The Washington Post: When an infant sees an object behave in a surprising way, she does everything she can to learn more about its mysteries, and the initial surprise ends up helping her learn. A
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Fighting to save cursive from the Common Core
The Boston Globe: WHEN IT comes to the classic “three Rs” of education, reading and ’rithmetic are still going strong. But ’riting — at least by hand — has fallen on hard times. Today, the
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Why Babies Love (And Learn From) Magic Tricks
NPR: To survive, we humans need to be able to do a handful of things: breathe, of course. And drink and eat. Those are obvious. We’re going to focus now on a less obvious —
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A Professor Forced Her Students to Take Notes by Hand
New York Magazine: A communications professor at the University of Kansas, tired of teaching to a classroom of students whose faces were all bathed in the blue light of their laptop screens, banned technology-enabled note-taking
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Learning to See Data
The New York Times: FOR the past year or so genetic scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have been collaborating with a specialist from another universe: Daniel Kohn, a Brooklyn-based
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Unifying Psychology as a Physical Science
25 Throughout 2015, the Observer is commemorating the silver anniversary of APS’s flagship journal. Among the reports in the first issue of Psychological Science, released in January 1990, was an article titled “Mother Nature’s Bag