Katrina Karan

    Thirteen disciplines to expand your mind start with metacognition and bilingual cognitive processing. Pattern recognition and neuroplasticity sit alongside game theory as core learning areas. Subconscious reprogramming…

    13 subjects to expand your mind

    13 subjects to expand your mind

    Gigliola

    The whole debate circles back to whether STEM majors are actually smarter or just better at following instructions. It really comes down to how you define smart in the first place. Engineers insist their field is harder,…

    STEM vs liberal arts difficulty debate

    STEM vs liberal arts difficulty debate

    Gigliola

    Alex V12 brought up a college debate that keeps spinning: is it easier to teach an engineer liberal arts or a liberal arts major engineering? Most people guess the second path is harder, but reaching world-class status…

    Alex V12 education debate

    Alex V12 education debate

    Gigliola

    Schools lock in years just to build a curriculum and then spend even more time teaching it before the money comes back. By the moment graduates hold their diplomas, those materials might already be obsolete. Think about…

    Business degree value debate

    Business degree value debate

    Writersroom Boardwalk

    The ledger of national credit is a strange one. Take the twentieth entry first: Austria is credited with the snow globe. Then work backward. The Czech Republic is credited with contact lenses, Poland with the kerosene…

    What Did Each Country Give the World

    What Did Each Country Give the World

    Gigliola

    AJ Spitz is pushing for a different way to teach race in schools. The focus shifts from memorizing dates to understanding how history shaped individual identity for both Black and white people. That perspective leads to…

    AJ Spitz on teaching race

    AJ Spitz on teaching race

    Writersroom Boardwalk

    A "unicorn founder" is a founder or co-founder of a private startup valued at $1 billion or more. Dealroom's tally of alumni who've built those companies stretches from Palo Alto to Toronto, and one school sits alone at…

    Universities with the most unicorn founders

    Universities with the most unicorn founders

    Katrina Karan

    Brendan Conway-Smith from CARLETON COGNITIVE SCIENCE breaks down Metacognition Theories in Cognitive Science as something deeper than the usual buzzword. The concept shifts focus away from managing external objects…

    Metacognition Theories in Cognitive Science

    Metacognition Theories in Cognitive Science