When you hear the word intern, you probably don’t think of people like Kristina Shands. For starters, she’s 38
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Could Worms Deep Below Earth Mean There’s Life in Space?
It’s just as well that Tullis Onstott doesn’t suffer from claustrophobia. During the academic year, the Princeton geoscientist works in an office in the sub-basement of the university’s Guyot Hall — a floor some of his colleagues didn’t even know existed.
A Tale of Two Schools
From the moment parents absorb the shock that their child may be autistic, they enter a dizzying world of specialists, therapists and, alas, purveyors of snake oil. Getting the right help quickly is paramount, but it is hard to make good decisions when you are in a panic or fighting despair
Should a Teen Sex Offender Go Free?
When he was 17, Genarlow Wilson had been his high school’s homecoming king, a football star and the recipient of an academic scholarship. But after being arrested for allowing a 15-year old girl to perform oral sex on him, he was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison, plus lifetime registration as a sex offender
The Myth About Homework
Sachem was the last straw.
When Bullying Turns Deadly: Can It Be Stopped?
Bullies can be anywhere, but there’s no place they show up more than in schools, and no time more than in September.
Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?
We shocked the academic experts by writing excellent encyclopedia entries on Wikipedia, so why can’t amateurs, if we all work together, create perfect recipes? If enough of us discuss and debate our hamburger knowledge — our meat choices, cooking methods, spices, condiments, bread — then won’t our collective experience create the Platonic burger
Harvard Crimson says Holocaust denial ad published by accident
Harvard University, one of America’s premiere academic institutions, is coming under fire for running an advertisement in its campus newspaper questioning the reality of the Holocaust. Recently named for the second straight year as the No.