New and Noteworthy: End of the World Edition

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• Steven Novella looks at Truth in Education.

• Coma Niddy’s Theory vs. Hypothesis rap.

• Adam Savage (Host of MythBusters) Explains How Simple Ideas Become Great Scientific Discoveries.

• Cedar Riener spends A Day at an Elementary School with a Cognitive Psychologist.

• A skeptical take on privilege as bias.

• On being Black in America: It’s Not Just About the Color of Your Skin.

• The Huffington Post explains “How Homeopathic Medicines Work,” without bothering to mention that they don’t.

• Bridget Gaudette on The consequences of labels.

• Meaningful learning standards vs. credit hours in college education.

• Weird Neuroscience: How education hijacked brain research.

• DoubtfulNews on the Fox News IQ study hoax: “You should NOT trust what you see in the news but apply critical thought to it…”

• Continuing the long tradition of lampooning black women’s bodies, Serena Williams is Not a Costume.

• When reality contradicts our racially framed expectations: Who should we fear?.

• The most salient qualities making for “great” books and The Essential Value of a Classic Education? Who’s omitted?

• How to separate fact and fiction online.

• Does science have a cognitive privilege?

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