Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder may have been an evolutionary asset back in the day, writes William Saletan on Slate.
Researchers compared African children from the same tribe with a gene linked to short attention spans and unpredictable behavior. It seems to help those who live as nomadic herders and hurt those who live in farming [...]
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Indicting a Missouri woman for cyberbullying sets a “scary precedent,” legal experts tell Wired.
In their eagerness to visit justice on a 49-year-old woman involved in the Megan Meier MySpace suicide tragedy, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are resorting to a novel and dangerous interpretation of a decades-old computer crime law — potentially making a [...]
What do you do to honor a son killed in Iraq? Robert Stokely set up a foundation to send school supplies to children in the village where his son Mike was killed by a roadside bomb in 2005.
Students and teachers had looks of joy — and bewilderment — as soldiers handed out school supplies [...]
Stepping away from education for a moment, I’ve got a column up on Pajamas Media, Obama’s Black Box.
Technology is enabling some autistic people to communicate and forcing scientists to reconsider what they think they know about autism, writes Wired.
The YouTube clip opens with a woman facing away from the camera, rocking back and forth, flapping her hands awkwardly, and emitting an eerie hum. She then performs strange repetitive behaviors: slapping a [...]
I’ve been tagged by Eduwonkette to write seven random things about myself:
1. I was co-editor-in-chief of The Wednesday Report, an every-other-weekly, from second through fifth grade.
2. In my first paid writing job, I wrote riddles short enough to appear (both question and answer) on a gum ball. My grandfather, who was in the candy [...]
Intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, is higher for Asians than Europeans and higher for Europeans than Africans, writes William Saletan on Slate.
Tests do show an IQ deficit, not just for Africans relative to Europeans, but for Europeans relative to Asians. Economic and cultural theories have failed to explain most of the pattern, and [...]
A “Scohol’ Zone” warning in Seminole County, Florida will be repainted today after a motorist reported the misspelling.
Today’s my 55th birthday. I’m not feeling great about it. Two days ago, I noticed a black stringy thing floating hither and yon in my field of vision. An opthamologist confirmed it’s a “floater.” Some people get them as they age. There’s no treatment. “You just get used to it,” said the doctor, who appeared [...]
From the Onion News Network: Who should be drafted for combat in Iraq: Civil War re-enactors or Dungeons & Dragons players?
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