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Does Internet Use “Rewire Adolescent Brains”?
Our very own Kathryn Mills says: we’ve got a lot of anecdotes, but not a…
Dreaming of a Snowy Holiday Season?
This trippy video from TedEd gives some insight into the neural process of imagination.
Thinking VERY Slowly about “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
Five years later, economics blogger Jason Collins rereads–and rereviews–Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Teacher Evaluations: Your Thoughts?
A report by the non-partisan Brookings Institute says that teacher evaluations are “a waste of time…
Home News: Congratulations, Stephanie!
Our very own Stephanie Sasse is a co-author of a just-published paper in the Journal…
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Drifting Away: The Cognitive Benefits—and Perils—of Mind-Wandering
You’re in the middle of a meeting or driving to work and your mind drifts…
Power Poses: Meh
This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education explains many reasons to doubt much-hyped research into–among…
Research Morsel: Gender Differences in Math (Again)
The journal Intelligence recently published an interesting study [1] analyzing gender differences in cognitive abilities in…
Reproducing Research Results
This video, from TedEd, helpfully outlines many of the reasons it can be difficult to…
LaTB Stories #1: Alex W.
My name is Alex Wonnell, aka Wonz. I work in a middle school in Burlington,…
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