Are boys between 3 and 13 being left behind in American education? Ali Carr-Chellman argues that they are:
How to write the perfect college admissions essay
Perfect essay? Okay, we can’t do perfect. But your target is getting accepted at the university or college of your choice, here are some ideas for a scream-free writing experience that might help: 1. Relax. Yes, the admissions essay is important. And you want to do your best. But relaxation is your secret weapon. If […]
Cool Internet Stats
Email 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010. 294 billion – Average number of email messages per day. 1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide. 480 million – New email users since the year before. 89.1% – The share of emails that were spam. 262 billion – […]
Why didn’t Ayaan Hirsi Ali make SuperScholar’s “Top 25 Atheists” List?
SuperScholar’s feature article “The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists” has attracted enormous attention on the web. As is always the case with such lists, individuals will be left off that some readers feel should definitely be there. One name that has kept coming up is Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Should she have made the list? First […]
Use and Abuse of Wikipedia
Say you’re given a writing assignment (in high school, college, or whatever). Suppose the topic you have to write on is new to you, and you need to get a quick handle on it. The natural place to look, of course, is the Internet; and the natural place on the Internet to look, of course, […]
Chris Martenson’s Crash Course on Economics
If you’ve never studied any economics and have an evening to spare, SuperScholar recommends you spend it viewing Chris Martenson’s “Crash Course,” which relates economics, energy, and the environment. Martenson started out in biological research, but in the last decade retooled and is now working as a business consultant. For all the “Crash Course” videos, […]
New York City Stagehands — A Lucrative Career
At SuperScholar we try to encourage readers to pursue lives of reflection and scholarship, which typically encourages inordinate amounts of education. But we are also aware that some readers simply want to make a good living, and education is simply a means to that end. So what if you don’t need an expensive education to […]
Rapping to promote evolution education?
Is this marketing or education? You decide …
10 Jobs a Recession Can Kill and 10 That It Can’t
Many people are justifiably worried about the economy. They fear a long and deep recession, spurred by central bank collapses, styled by some the Second Great Depression or perhaps Great Recession. These terms, of course, riff off the Great Depression of the 1930s. The causes of downturns are a (much-disputed) story for another day. Students […]
Anthony Grafton on education reform
Princeton historian Anthony Grafton has an interesting review of two recent books* on education reform. His assessment of neither book is positive, but in engaging the topic of education reform, Grafton offers some interesting insights and factoids. Here’s one: The cost of a year’s study at a college or university escalates, year upon year. Yet […]