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should you really consider a foreign university?
We’ve discussed college education in depth on this blog. Over the years we covered why it’s probably not the best choice for everyone, how instead of opening doors to new and rewarding careers it can...
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so how many humanities scholars do we need?
On this blog, yours truly harps a lot about the benefit of a STEM major and relentlessly pounced on those who seem to believe that humanities makes one a better person than the sciences, especially...
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the absurd post-college guessing game
Ever since my foray into grad school, college education has been a recurring topic here as I struggled how to balance the advice given to me about what to study and how far to keep going, and the...
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why there are phds in the unemployment line…
According to what we’re often told, if we work hard, study, get good grades, and go to college, we’ll have good jobs that let us make a steady living and the typically poor college student days will be...
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why college is not a quick fix for poverty
If you’re gainfully employed for all intents and purposes, and one day find yourself off work sick because while your boss wants you at work he or she isn’t interested in your germs also being in the...
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to code or not to code? that is the question…
When living and working in the modern post-industrial world, you need to be computer literate, despite what a few people with whom I worked in the past may think. I’m sure you know the people in...
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want more stem grads? open your wallet…
After years of warnings about low graduation rates in STEM disciplines from tech companies and DARPA, the call for more enrollments in scientific and engineering programs, and better, more...
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the futile search for the goldilocks employee
Say you’re an employer in today’s economy and you’ve reached a point when you need to hire more people to meet customer demand. Considering the high unemployment rates and the most educated workforce...
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when conspiracy theorists have a valid point
A while ago, a seemingly harmless opinion article about digital currency on a current events site provoked a flood of conspiracy theorists claiming that digital money was a tool for the New World...
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learning your abc’s and int/void mains?
As an old expression teaches us, when you have a hammer, all your problems look like nails, so it’s no surprise that Silicon Valley bigwigs interested in improving education quickly turn to coding and...
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are today’s science funding recommendations doing more harm than good?
Nature recently published a thorough look at Norman Augustine, an engineer who now advises political bigwigs on how to allocate research and development dollars for scientific ventues. A lot of his...
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why companies and colleges aren’t working together
Generally the informal rule around Weird Things is not to persue the same topic two days in a row, but there are always exceptions, especially in the case of hard data that brings the points discussed...
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putting the future within reach again
As I said before, we really want the Musks and Gates of the world to keep investing exactly the way they’re investing now and we want to keep on encouraging their choices through every tax credit,...
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the catch with a free public college education
Despite what many readers might think, the only reason why the politics I advocate on this blog come across as fairly liberal is because nowadays, ideas like better education funding or public...
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why bureaucrats shouldn’t handle social activism
For those of you who haven’t read my post about social activism in the skeptical movement, or don’t remember it, I would recommend a quick refresher before proceeding. One of the biggest reasons why a...
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If you’ve never been out with a large group of teachers, and I don’t mean five or six of them, I’m talking about 30 or 40 people, a word of caution. Teachers can drink so much that sailors would...
View Articlewhy americans need to grow up when it comes to sex ed
Since John Oliver’s weekly deep dives tend to explode across the web, you may have seen this scathing expose of the sorry state of sex education in America which shows that how prepared you are for...
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when good intentions become strong-armed mollycoddling
Remember the nasty and bitter social justice clashes that rippled out across what still remained of independent pop sci and skeptical blogs, the ones that ended up swallowing a good chunk of organized...
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why the college bubble really needs to pop
College in America is the ultimate solution to any problem involving income. We’re told to go to one to get a four year degree, and suddenly, we’ll have lucrative jobs, fulfilling careers, and just as...
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why tenure should never, ever be abolished
When you hear the word tenure, you’re more than likely imagining the countless groans from a certain subset of pundits who think that’s it’s a magical ticket for an academic to do nothing and keep his...
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