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Why minimal guidance fails in education“The current situation will probably continue as long as direct instruction is more expensive and less interesting than fads, which is to say forever. But astute consumers of education, especially if they are paying for it, can learn to make wiser investments by heeding these cautionary tales.” Read More ›

Thomas Nagel: “The intelligentsia was so furious [at him] that it formed a lynch mob”

So: Nagel was assailed. And almost everyone else ran. Because only real thinkers have courage. The rest are just tenurebots soaking students for money they can’t afford to get degrees that won’t help them. Read More ›

Artificial intelligence has sputtered?

Well, if self-knowledge means we think but don’t know what thinking really is or how it is really done, that’s self-knowledge. But if you get a degree in that, make sure there is a job at the other end. Read More ›

People’s Choice Awards: Our most read stories February 2013

Unlike chromosome doubling, jumping genes, or horizontal gene transfer (for all of which we have evidence) Darwinian macroevolution is something we take on faith. Through the magic of survival of the fittest (natural selection), it turns cows into whales just like the fairy godmother does. Read More ›

ENV’s Top Three (of the Top Ten) evolution stories of 2013

Prediction: Darwin's followers will now run out to double down on the colossal threat to “science” posed by a clear exposition of the issues the Cambrian period presents. We can watch this play out in formula science news writing, museum guide patter, and tax-funded textbook schlock. Read More ›