After the U.S.started vaccinating kids for measles in the 1960s, children predictably stopped getting measles.What happened next had not been predicted - childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from infections like pneumonia were cut in half. The same phenomenon happened again, in England, and then across Europe and it still happens today when developing...
read moreThe public relations machine behind government-financed alternative energy corporations talk a lot about solar power in Germany, but the numbers don't add up. Germany didn't want to stand against Russia after the invasion of Ukraine because they need their natural gas from fracking and now the French are complaining about pollution wafting over the border from Deutschland due to coal and oil.They...
read moreI like to use the Sneetches With Stars analogy (I did so again two days ago) because Theodor Seuss Geisel, famously known as Dr. Seuss, was spot on with the idea that humans would find a reason to be different from one another. In the Sneetch community, when one group had a star, they were superior, and eventually a savvy businessman came along and found a way to give everyone stars (which was...
read moreGeorge Siemens, executive director of The University of Texas at Arlington's Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Lab, is the lead author of "Preparing for the Digital University: A Review of the History and Current State of Distance, Blended, and Online Learning."
read moreThe U.S. educational system clearly produces some of the best minds in the world. America leads in science output and in adult science literacy, yet when it comes to standardized tests, the United States has always been in the middle of the pack and that has long been a concern. read...
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