By Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigationsSeptember 29, 2024 As most public schools struggle to recover the profound learning loss tied to the pandemic, students in Colorado’s Boulder Valley School District are racing ahead, leaving the dark days of COVID behind. Boulder Valley’s notable 2024 test scores, which easily surpassed its math and reading marks in 2019, are not… Continue reading Education’s Bottom Line: Schools Embrace Business Principles to Measure Performance
It’s Going to Hit 90 Degrees F in Alaska This Week
It’s Going to Hit 90 Degrees in Alaska This Week Temperatures in Fairbanks, Alaska, are predicted to reach a record-tying 90 degrees Fahrenheit because of a prolonged, unusually late heat wave By Andrea Thompson Downtown Fairbanks, Alaska, skyline. Temperatures in Fairbanks, Alaska, are forecast to hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) on Wednesday—hotter than… Continue reading It’s Going to Hit 90 Degrees F in Alaska This Week
Is Closing the Sale With ‘Inflation’ Voters Enough for Trump?
In Pennsylvania, our most recent poll (conducted between September 22nd and 28th, with a sample size of 700 likely voters) shows Kamala Harris and Donald Trump tied at 46% to 46% – a statistical tie. The remaining 6% are undecided; 1% would choose another candidate. This poll shows a slight tightening of the race from… Continue reading Is Closing the Sale With ‘Inflation’ Voters Enough for Trump?
Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time
In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She calculated that collisions involving three different types of subatomic particles would all produce the same wreckage. It was like laying a grid over maps of London, Tokyo and New York and seeing that all three cities… Continue reading Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time
The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2001, Resurrection, Jupiter)
Podcast: Download MYS331: Over the course of years and in dozens of cities across the world, strange tiles with bizarre messages began showing up affixed to streets. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the Toynbee Tiles, the bizarre ideas they convey, and who is behind them. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow… Continue reading The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2001, Resurrection, Jupiter)
Rare Whale Beached in New Zealand Offers Glimpse of Little-Known Species
One of Earth’s Most Elusive Whales Washes up on New Zealand Beach Scientists hope the incredibly rare beaching of a spade-toothed whale will help them learn more about this persistently elusive species By Kate Graham-Shaw Jim Fyfe and Tūmai Cassidy walk alongside a rare, male spade-toothed whale, being moved by Trevor King. When the 16-foot-long… Continue reading Rare Whale Beached in New Zealand Offers Glimpse of Little-Known Species
The IRA’s Unconstitutional Drug Price Controls
The Biden-Harris administration recently announced the negotiated prices for the first 10 drugs of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) drug price negotiation program (DPNP). That same day, Vice President Harris stood alongside President Biden for their first joint appearance since Biden stepped down as the Democratic presidential nominee. At the campaign event, Harris touted the… Continue reading The IRA’s Unconstitutional Drug Price Controls
Can Space-Time Be Saved? | Quanta Magazine
Most of today’s leading theoretical physicists have a shared perspective about what the next revolution in physics will look like. They think reconciling Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity with quantum mechanics will require transcending the notion of space-time. Einstein’s theory attributes the force of gravity to curves in the space-time fabric, but beneath this… Continue reading Can Space-Time Be Saved? | Quanta Magazine
Kamala Harris Is Keeping Voters in the Dark
“We are not going back,” Vice President Kamala Harris has promised. But where are we heading? And who is being left behind? Concerned Americans asking these questions can find answers at this year’s Climate Week NYC, a gathering of liberal activists and elites who claim that we are heading away from a “fossil-fuel society” and… Continue reading Kamala Harris Is Keeping Voters in the Dark
What a Kamala Harris Presidency Would Mean for Science
What a Kamala Harris Presidency Would Mean for Science As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, experts say By Max Kozlov, Mariana Lenharo, Jeff Tollefson & Nature magazine US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives on the South Lawn of the White House in… Continue reading What a Kamala Harris Presidency Would Mean for Science