Student hospitalized during Survival Challenge on wilderness ranch; police investigation is ongoing; other concerning incidents re student safety and privacy; one guide fired; also Little B. Diddies

My interview with Dr. Claudio Tennie on how humans and great apes culturally diverged

The OECD released PISA 2025 on Tuesday, and the headlines basically wrote themselves.

Even harder than brain surgery

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

If you like to watch a video, watch the video. If you like to read, here’s the same information**: 1. Learning is a change to your long-term memory (LTM)1. This is key, and this is how learni…

We can each make change, one person at a time.

This article appeared in Inside Higher Ed, July 8, 2026. For the first time since he started teaching Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory nearly two decades ago, Brown University economics p…

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7--12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school...

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How to make human punk

A manifesto for technology in schools

Or, the difference between traveling and being traveled

AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know.