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When students are flunking in high numbers, teachers and administrators must take three crucial steps.
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Andres Alonso remembers his school experience fondly. How can we replicate that experience for the next generation?
In March, Sunlight Labs announced Design for America — a 10-week design and data visualization contest aiming to connect the creative community with the increasing amounts of public data produced […]
Matt Gross, the Frugal Traveler for the New York Times, announced today that he is putting down his pen. In his column, he talks about what he’s learned over the past […]
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The longtime sportswriter talks about his personal style and who he’d want to step into the ring with.
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The greatest baseball player ever was Babe Ruth. Not only because every home run hit after him “has his DNA in it,” but also for his prowess as a pitcher. […]
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Steroids aren’t as big a problem as the press has made them out to be. “And if they are, we’ve got a pitcher on steroids throwing to a batter on […]
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Heavyweight champions today are so anonymous that you could put them all in a police lineup in gloves, robes, and trunks, holding their belts aloft, and no one would know […]
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“Sometimes the man’s IQ ain’t too high, but his boxing IQ is.” All fighters make mistakes in the ring—the great ones put that information into their mental computer and learn […]
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“Half of us will write on bathroom walls in lipstick if it pays—women’s rooms with two hands.”
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Today’s sportswriters don’t have the discipline that their predecessors did. “They’re writing quickly, so there’s no time for thought and cerebral thinking on an article. They’re just banging away.”
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A conversation with the writer and sports historian.
It looks like the internet forecasters were optimistic when they designed the current IP address architecture known as IPv4. They figured 4 billion addresses would be enough. But this was […]
Standardized tests are supposed to measure innate abilities. The subject of your last conversation, the lead story on the news last night, the pictures on the wall at the test […]
With the popularity of the Internet and self-publishing, Garrison Keillor laments the end of the glamorous age of publishing from a rooftop in Tribeca.
The strange behavior of two suppermassive black holes may change the way scientists understand the evolution of galaxies, including our own Milky Way.
Robert Fisk thinks that political speak has taken over journalism and that accuracy of fact has become dominated by competing historical narratives that favor power over truth.
The Australian anthropologist Sarah Thornton has completed a study of the art world and traced its hierarchies and status-seekers just as she did the London party scene.
The incomprehensibility of quantum physics is responsible for the rise of postmodern social theories which reject the notion of a stable, immutable truth.
Mark Twain asked that his biography not be published until 100 years after his death. "He was certainly a man who knew how to make people want to buy a book," says its publisher.