Nearly $36 billion has been lost to fraud in unemployment benefits in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s more than what is usually paid out in an entire year. A Nigerian student openly admitted to scamming $50,000 from the US pandemic welfare system to date. He only had to make a list of real people and access their social security numbers and birthdates. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
