Seoul, South Korea— Monday morning begins, with my hands cupped around an Americano. I watch students pour into the upscale computer room…
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Early Career Research Community The South Korean Elite: Teaching and Learning at Seoul Science High School
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Early Career Research Community Neuroscience in the Land of the Rising Sun
Japan is like no other country in the world, fusing the ancient and the modern seamlessly. As soon as I landed in…
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Early Career Research Community The Crowd and The Cloud: The impact of citizen science
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. Konrad Lorenz New…
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Early Career Research Community Why Teaching Makes You Smarter
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark van Doren Last fall, I taught for the Science Honors…
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Early Career Research Community What’s in a Name? The Impact of Different Course Titles on Student Enrollment
“The three pillars of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.” Benjamin Disraeli In October of 1955, Ford marketing…
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Early Career Research Community Neurotechnology: A Look Back at President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries, and new ideas, probably in that order. – Sydney Brenner In 2012, my former…
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Early Career Research Community Why We Need Computational Models in Biology
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” Manfred Eigen, 1967 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry…
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The Student Blog Mind and Matter: The Intersection of Poetry and Science
The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease…