Gender Bias in Academics Continued: An Experimental Test in the Hard Sciences

Why are women underrepresented in the STEM fields? A recent advisory council to the President concluded that at the current rate of training...

Kids, school, and play: A look at what today’s youngest students are (and are not) doing in the classroom

source Now that kids across the country are putting away their swimsuits and flip-flops and heading back to school, a new cohort o...

In Just 1 Hour: Reducing the Achievement Gap

Today we bring you a post by another amazing guest blogger, Michelle Rheinschmidt . Michelle is a graduate student at Berkeley and her guest...

Intelligence: It’s all in your head

How'd you earn your A+? Which do you think is more predictive of success: innate ability or hard work? Do you think anyone can rise up t...

Improving memory - (retrieval) practice makes perfect

Today we would like to present you with the another (terrific) guest blogger. Joseph Williams is a graduate student in the cognitive psycho...

The power of red

source Like most teenagers in suburbia I took a driver’s education class shortly after I earned my learner’s permit. Though I picked up crit...