A hundred years ago, in 1920, America was in chaos; World War I had ended two years prior, a Red Scare had been sweeping through the country, a bomb blew up in Wall Street, and Spanish Influenza ravaged the world. Warren G. Harding ran the slogan “a return to normalcy” during his presidential campaign. A hundred years have passed; it is now 2021 and we couldn’t be further from normal. When will the cycle stop? 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