In this brief TED talk, Dan Meyer discusses the backwardness of math education in America and how to improve the situation.
SCIENCE
Harvey Fineberg on Neo-Evolution
Harvey Fineberg discusses the future of human evolution. What’s coming next for our species?
Schwartz’s Paradox of Choice
Barry Schwartz’s “The Paradox of Choice” remains one of the greatest talks in the TED catalog. Incisive and comprehensively applicable, the way he connects choice psychology to marketing, human welfare, and social policy is masterful.
Scientists Create Artificial Jellyfish Using Rat Cells
A team of Harvard scientists has reverse-engineered a jellyfish by using cells from a rat’s heart muscle, resulting in the world’s first synthetic jelly.
Carbon Dating for the Rest of Us
Though it’s one of the oldest age dating methods in use today, C-14 dating is largely misunderstood by the general public. I provide a layman’s explanation of this well-established technique.
The Paradox of Tetrachromacy
Four-coned women are not usually aware of their ability to perceive superior color resolution. Not only is it difficult to self-identify as tetrachromatic, it is just as challenging to craft experiments to study it.
Review: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
Part textbook, part creationist’s worst nightmare, Prothero delivers an accessible resource for understanding both evolution and the ideology of its detractors.
Spectacular Footage of Aurora Borealis
Take a few moments out of your busy day to bask in this peerless stop motion video of one of the planet’s most beautiful phenomena: the aurora borealis.
Runaway Ice Loss in the Arctic
Satellite observations paint a rather dreary picture of the situation at our North Pole.
More Empty Words and Climate Politics
Another week, another global warming denialist spasm. The latest one saturating headlines is from a group of former NASA employees expressing dissent from the consensus.
The Partisanship of Climate Denial
In recent decades, the populist discrediting of science has overwhelmingly originated from the conservative camps.
A Climate of Change
My always up-to-date resource on global warming. Links are regularly updated with the most recent studies; figures are pulled from the latest data; feedbacks, forcings and climate vectors are described.
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