Ted Kennedy, long idolized as the Lion of the Senate, miscalculated badly when he challenged incumbent Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination. The results haunt liberals to this day.
Both science and journalism can do better at acknowledging and correcting errors.
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Science has a reputation for vigorous hypothesis-testing in the search for truth. But when errors make it into scientific journals, the hallowed self-correction process seldom lives up to the ideal.
It officially ended 150 years ago on April 9 in Appomattox with General Lee’s surrender, but the deep divisions that produced the Civil War still roil our national psyche.
Homeschooling for black children is increasing.
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The stats for 2014 have been compiled and shark attacks and fatalities are down worldwide. The numbers are truly tiny. Why do we fixate on this vanishingly rare possibility?
The decoration of choice by Europe’s farming-friendly forefathers.
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Studying beads, shells and animal teeth – ornaments which carried deep cultural meaning to prehistoric man – reveals that northern Europeans resisted the spread of agriculture for centuries.
All smiles for Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.
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Liberal learning is in crisis and the onus is now on its proponents to show how it is relevant to students’ personal, professional and political lives.
Could dysmusia be to reading music what dyslexia is to reading text, and dyscalculia is to math?
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To mark the 21st anniversary of the Rwandan genocide: lessons from the “gacaca” courts, the country’s unique and ambitious community justice initiative.
With teachers leaving the profession in large numbers and a drop in candidates applying to teaching programs, it is time to take a fresh look at education reforms.
Digging for dollars: an new way to view economic growth.
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Economic inequality and environmental degradation are closely linked – and stem from politicians’ fixation on economic growth at all costs.
Drawings by male warriors – like Black Hawk’s ‘Dream or Vision or Himself Changed to a Destroyer or Riding a Bufalo Eagle (1880-1881)’ – often depicted visions perceived during meditation and fasting.
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First found in jellyfish, but now inserted into all kinds of organisms, GFPs illuminate biological structures and processes that researchers otherwise couldn’t see.
The ultimate problem: intensive corn production.
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A law signed into effect last week seeks to reduce fertilizer runoff that causes toxic algae blooms. But to really address the problem requires taking a hard look at how America farms.
China’s made it clear, all nations allowed.
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