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Estonia has combined a belief in learning with equal-access technology to create one of world’s best education systems.
“Our data should be ours no matter what platforms and apps we use,” Yang said.
From reassessing the way schools are funded to changing the curriculum, there are ways to fix the inequities in education.
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Living simply now strikes many people as simply boring.
The American economy may be locked into an unhealthy cycle that only benefits a select few. Is it too late to fix it?
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New research reveals the extent to which groupthink bias is increasingly being built into the content we consume.
It can mean citizens drinking contaminated groundwater or being schooled in decaying buildings with asbestos problems.
DribbleUp is the perfect solution to recess at home.
Teaching community organizers via WhatsApp yields encouraging results in South Africa, according to MIT Governance Lab research.
Utilizing nuclear waste converted to diamonds, this company’s batteries will reportedly last thousands of years in some cases.
Will nefarious players use social media to sway public opinion again this November?
A new study examines the under-researched area of water theft around the world.
Big Think co-founder and CEO Victoria Brown breaks down the process of transitioning from founder to boss in her new book, Digital Goddess.
Google’s Arts & Culture app just added a suite of prehistoric animals and NASA artifacts that are viewable for free with a smartphone.
A small proof-of-concept study shows smartphones could help detect drunkenness based on the way you walk.
The Himalayan Kingdom best known for its concept of “Gross National Happiness.”
By projecting lifetime risk, an alarming new medical study centers the human lives that will be lost due to gun violence and drug addiction in the United States.
The system is basically facial recognition technology, but for cars.
What are schools for and who is leading the ship?
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New documents confirm that the government agency—one of many—has been using a tracking company.
What good is a conspiracy theory you can’t profit from?
It doesn’t help that Hollywood has cast the ‘coder’ as a socially challenged, type-first-think-later hacker, inevitably white and male.
Sharing QAnon disinformation is harming the children devotees purport to help.
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A clever new study definitively measures how long it takes for quantum particles to pass through a barrier.
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Pandemic-inspired housing innovation will collide with techno-acceleration.
In a recent study, researchers examined how Christian nationalism is affecting the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Parental anxieties stem from the complex relationship between technology, child development, and the internet’s trove of unseemly content.