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Education

Why Best Practices Don’t Spread

In 2009, the Binghamton City School District asked me to help design a “school within…

David Sloan Wilson
July 3, 2014

Education

Taming The Autonomous Learner

This paper addresses a broad and fundamental question: Is culture transmitted to or acquired by…

eiadminMay 22, 2014

Education

Evolutionary Educational Psychology as a Base for Instructional Design

While it is intuitively plausible that teaching skills should be useful, evidence that they are…

eiadminMay 8, 2014

Environment

The Future Looks Good For Citizen Science

Public participation in science, or citizen science, is finding a foothold in all branches of…

Rafe Sagarin
May 1, 2014

Religion

Homo Religiosus

Some years ago, I approached my upcoming supervisor in Germany with a dissertation project exploring…

Michael Blume
April 26, 2014

EducationEnvironmentMindTechnology

Books are Maps of Nature, Screens are Maps of Nothing

Our Stone Age brains never had or needed a way to process written symbolic language.

Rafe Sagarin
February 7, 2014

Business

Working With Human Nature To Improve Business Ethics

Why our moral psychology makes it difficult to teach ethics.I give a brief overview of…

tvolimportOctober 7, 2013

Education

Learning from Mother Nature About Teaching Our Children: Ten Simple Truths

Scientists explored new solutions from an unusual source: Darwin's theory of evolution.Education isn’t working well…

David Sloan Wilson
April 9, 2013

Education

Four US States Considering Laws That Challenge Teaching of Evolution

Critics charge 'academic freedom' legislation in Colorado, Missouri, Montana and Oklahoma is just creationism in…

eiadminFebruary 6, 2013

Education

A Science Teacher Draws the Line at Creation

A science teacher asks if scientists and biblical literalists can get along.

eiadminJanuary 11, 2013