All cultures in the world have sought to develop an understanding of themselves, their realities and seek deeper truths. While the scientific and reductionist worldview of European thought has labored to formulate and postulate on the world, a divergence of … Continue reading 7 essential Eastern philosophy books
This article is part of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions Education has long been linked to national economic competitiveness. Most debates have focused on what subjects are taught – and many in the US correctly argue we need to … Continue reading Education should be like everything else. An on-demand service
The Maya civilization used chocolate as money Your Hershey bar may have been worth its weight in gold in Mayan times. A new study reveals that chocolate became its own form of money at the height of Mayan opulence—and that … Continue reading Cacao, a key Maya Currency
College can be expensive. In fact, Americans are currently paying off an approximate $1.4 trillion in student loan debt. But now there’s an opportunity to skip an expensive four years and still go to grad school at one of the nation’s … Continue reading Skip college and go straight to grad school—at MIT
Burner phones, FBI stakeouts, search warrants—Season 6 of The Wire? No, just our social betters street fighting their children’s way into elite colleges. In March, we got Operation Varsity Blues, which charged a group of wealthy parents and an alleged conman … Continue reading The Gangs of Kalorama – An elite-college education is one of the few expensive things that is for sale, but that not everyone is allowed to buy.
High-income kids who don’t graduate from college are 2.5 times more likely to end up rich than low-income kids who do. Why it’s so hard for the poor to get ahead today. The American Dream isn’t dead—it just moved to … Continue reading ‘The Great Gatsby Curve’: Why It’s So Hard for the Poor to Get Ahead
Machine-learning algorithms find and apply patterns in data. And they pretty much run the world. Machine-learning algorithms are responsible for the vast majority of the artificial intelligence advancements and applications you hear about. (For more background, check out our first … Continue reading What is machine learning?
An innovative device allows reading any electronic document in Braille format, doing away with cumbersome paper books. Fingertips are one of the areas with the largest amount of nerve endings in our bodies. Such sensitivity and, of course, the alphabet … Continue reading An E-Reader for Visually Impaired People
Drawn from Aristotle and his Roman and Medieval interpreters, the “classical trivium”—a division of thought and writing into Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric—assumes at least three things: that it matters how we arrive at our ideas, it matters how we express … Continue reading How to Argue With Kindness and Care: 4 Rules from Philosopher Daniel Dennett
Video games and social media require human users to enter into a procedural loop known as flow eginning in the late 1960s, a new group of technologists (including Douglas Engelbart’s team at Stanford, Alan Kay and others at Xerox PARC, and … Continue reading How Tech Redefined the Experience of Culture
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