
Why inequality exists, financial markets crash, polarization arises and health epidemics spread can be explained by a powerful social structure: the human network. o understand why people succeed or fail, look at […]
Why inequality exists, financial markets crash, polarization arises and health epidemics spread can be explained by a powerful social structure: the human network. o understand why people succeed or fail, look at […]
A new study suggests that women are more heavily influenced than men by test anxiety, and points to ways to help close the gender gap. Research has long shown that women who […]
A new report from the Stanford History Education Group finds that fact checkers read less but learn more – far outpacing historians and top college students. How do expert researchers go about […]
New research finds that small regions of the brain cycle in and out of sleep, even when awake. The cycles shift toward “awake” when that part of the brain pays attention to […]
“Ask chief executives why their companies are performing so well, and they’ll typically credit a brilliant strategy coupled with hard-nosed, diligent execution. When you ask Lars Sørensen of Novo Nordisk what forces […]
Stanford Professor Jo Boaler says that students most effectively learn “math facts” working on problems that they enjoy, rather than through exercises and drills they fear. Speed pressure, timed testing and blind […]
Harvard University raised a record $1.16 billion in donations in a single year, beating rival Stanford for the first time in a decade. Harvard’s haul, the largest ever in higher education, represents […]