Tag: lifeandnews
How tests and wrong answers help us remember what we learn
By Nate Kornell, Williams College
Teachers give tests to find out what their students know. But tests do a lot more than that and can...
Most disappointing headline ever (No, chocolate will not improve your memory)
By Ian Musgrave
This morning I woke to the most disappointing headline ever. “A Bite to Remember? Chocolate Is Shown to Aid Memory” was prominent...
Universities may seek more EU students once controls lifted
By Gemma Ware, The Conversation
Plans to remove controls on the number of students in England from autumn 2015 could see more universities turning to...
Colorado curriculum kerfuffle showed activism can beat vested interests
By Mark Paige, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Students in Jefferson County, Colorado, popularly known as JeffCo, have learned an important civics lesson about their power...
Crowdsourcing competitions often hijacked: study
By Charis Palmer, The Conversation
Crowdsourcing competitions, popular with companies seeking to tap into groups of knowledge, are often diminished by malicious behaviour, according to...
Turkey is paying for decades of divisive politics as it fights...
By Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University
When armed conflict becomes a fact of everyday life, and generations grow up knowing nothing else, imagining life in a...
‘Cloud first’ sounds like a breeze, but it’s not always smooth...
By Dan Jerker B. Svantesson
The Australian government’s all about the cloud, with the Attorney-General and Ministers for Finance and Communications announcing their “cloud first”...
Six wearables and apps to improve health and happiness
By Sue Thomas, Bournemouth University
The age of the wearable is fast upon us, and many of the new products we’re going to see in...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
