“For the most part, what we’ve experienced is there’s almost no rhyme or reason for what gets banned and what gets censored.” Prisons enforce arbitrary restrictions on books that can be donated to prisoners, and they often don’t make sense unless you accept that many inspectors are discriminatory; works mentioning gangs, drug deals, and violence written by black authors are often banned, but books like The Godfather and Mein Kampf are allowed. 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
