The US is falling behind other countries in standardized test scores.
Surely this story is familiar to you by now. I’ve been hearing it most of my life. So much so that you have to wonder how US students can ever hope to compete with the test-taking all-stars in China, Korea, and India.
My own experience teaching [...]

I’m not the type to talk politics on my blog, but I want to make a few comments on the logistics of canceling Wisconsin’s commitment to high-speed rail, as governor-elect Scott Walker has vowed to do.
Here are the facts:
1. As part of the federal stimulus package, $800 million was set aside for the development of [...]

There was a lot of media coverage about the Large Hadron Collider startup last year, with many people freaking about about black holes, strangelets, and magnetic monopoles ripping apart the universe as we know it. As you may remember, the system was shut down before it could ever perform any collisions due to a fault [...]