Are you ever tangled up in a tough problem, sleep on it, and then wake up with a solution?   Do ideas come to you in the shower, on a walk, or doing the dishes?  These ideas come...

"What I expect now is something as dramatic is going to happen, not so much in medicine but in economy and culture."      -- Gianna Pomata, Institute of the History of Medicine,...

“This is about lack of imagination.” Ali S. Khan, of the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases, New Yorker, May 4, 2020 The Coronavirus pandemic caught...

This fall, schools face a dilemma: should teachers address time lost to Covid-19 by returning to the goals of spring 2020.  Or should schools push students to master the 2020...

Like the U.S., Canada has been thrust into a national educational experiment in distance learning.  However, long before the arrival of Covid-19, the Ontario Ministry of...

The coronavirus has turned American education into a vast uncharted experiment, in which we are all both the experimenters and the guinea pigs. As one teacher commented in...

By Stanley Rosenberg and Dan Hunter Originally published in Commonwealth: Nonprofit Journal of Politics, Ideas, and Civic Life on June 1, 2019   TODAY WE MUST educate...

Now!  After centuries of mystery! Get the low-down on the throw-down showdown! Artificial intelligence to the rescue! The ancient Japanese game of janken, known as...

You’ve just enjoyed a standup comedy routine or watched a comedy in the theater.  Maybe, you even laughed until you cried.  You feel good. (wriggly) Why do humans laugh?  What...