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Billions of dollars are poured into global development every year, but results are lacking, says economist Karthik Muralidharan. Diving into an example with public education, he...
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s latest book, “The Anxious Generation,” is shaping cultural conversations and sparking fierce debates about the role of smartphones in society. In this...
Popular Science Store: Popular Science Prints: Use code YOUTUBE for 10% off. Journeying down the path of vintage tech and retro computers is a good time...
As a self-proclaimed radical street librarian, Storybook Maze makes books appear where they’re scarce. Through initiatives like free, public book vending machines and street corner story...
There’s a right way and wrong way to do empathy, says author and scholar Chezare A. Warren. So how do we get it right? He unpacks...
We’re programmed to think every issue is binary: “us vs. them.” But Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND Snacks, says the real enemy isn’t a person...
What if you could code just by talking out loud? GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke shows how, thanks to AI, the barrier to entry to coding is...
How much should we invest in teachers, and what should new investment actually involve? Education innovator Randy Seriguchi Jr. suggests the US should create a “G.I....
Do you know about VisiTel? Video calling technology is such a mundane feature of smartphones now that it would be weird if a device *didn’t* have...
When Everett Knowles hitched a ride on a Boston train, he expected to make it home in a few minutes. But the result was the final...
