Autonomy UK report on schools and the 4-day week
The think tank Autonomy UK has just released a new report, A Four-Day Week For Schools. Not surprisingly, teachers like the idea, especially after the last couple years.
Air quality and cognitive performance
I have an air purifier beside my desk. Not by design: they're just close to each other because both are close to one of the few easily-accessible power
Young sociology faculty publish twice as much today as in the 1990s
I’m taking a glance at academic work and careers in the book, and came across this really interesting article by John Robert Warren asking, “How Much Do You
One New Mexico school districts’ 4-day week
One of my old elementary schools, now closed and scheduled for demolition, Waynesboro, VirginiaPBS' News Hour recently had a piece about Bayard, New Mexico, a school district that
“This exam season, don’t forget to rest up:” REST goes to college
Daniel Payne, writing in the Daily Mississippian, makes the case for college students paying attention to rest: Hours of caffeine-fueled work with breaks only long enough to change
A new project on the craft of academic sabbaticals
What makes a successful academic sabbatical? I want to find out. And I want your help. Few of us get any explicit training in how to take a
On the growth of zombie departments
When I was an undergraduate at Penn, one of the graduate students I met was an historian of American technology named Deborah Fitzgerald. Later, when I taught American
Gestures and Childhood Creativity
In the philosophy of mind, there's a concept called "embodied cognition," which holds that thinking isn't just something we do with our brains; we do it with our
“To create, we need both technique and the freedom from technique”
One of the great Silicon Valley tropes is that inexperience is a positive. The extreme expression of it-- I'm simplifying here, but not that much-- is that young people who
Identity projects, adolescence, and success
A recent book by Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin, Coming of Age in the Other America, that aims to explain how some poor kids manage to thrive,