EDUCATION

SINGLE-DOSE OF GENE THERAPY HAILED AS ‘MAGIC WAND’ FOR PATIENTS WITH DEADLY CONDITION
BY: ANDY CORBLEY ... CRISPR is at it again: this time providing a single-dose option to cure a debilitating genetic disorder called hereditary angioedema … continue reading

RARE FOSSIL SHOWS TREES LOOKED VERY DIFFERENT 350 MILLION YEARS AGO
BY: CHRISTIAN THORSBERG ... The newly discovered specimen looks like something from the imagination of Dr. Seuss, and it sheds light on a little - understood … continue reading

ENVIRONMENTAL DNA IS EVERYWHERE - SCIENTISTS ARE GATHERING IT ALL
BY: PETER ANDREY SMITH ... The ability to extract trace bits of DNA from soil, water, and even air is revolutionizing science. Are there pitfalls? … continue reading

THE NEW SELF-AMPLIFYING RNA VACCINES PROMISE TO BE DOUBLE, TRIPLE, QUADRUPLE THE FUN!
BY: KAREN HUNT ... It’s all part of a quest to discover the best ways to send messages through human bodies instructing those bodies to perform in whatever way they are ordered … continue reading

STRIKING FINDINGS FROM 2023
BY: PEW RESEARCH ... Pew Research Center has gathered data around some of this year’s defining news stories, from the rise of artificial intelligence to the debate over affirmative action in college admissions … continue reading

STRIKING FINDINGS FROM 2023
BY: PEW RESEARCH ... Pew Research Center has gathered data around some of this year’s defining news stories, from the rise of artificial intelligence to the debate over affirmative action … continue reading

AMERICA’S UNIVERSITIES REAP WHAT THEY HAVE SOWN
BY: ROB SCHWARZWALDER ... America’s elite institutions are shuddering from the impact of the outbursts of anti-Semitism on their campuses. Their spasms of panic … continue reading

10 SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS WE CAN'T ANSWER YET
BY: NATHAN CHANDLER ... When the Black Death ran rampant through cities in the Middle Ages, no one knew exactly how or why the awful disease spread. After many generations, we figured out … continue reading

BUTTERFLIES PROVE COMPLEX LEARNING MAY BE MORE COMMON IN INSECTS THAN WE THOUGHT
BY: MELISSA BREYE ... A new study reveals the first direct evidence of spatial learning in any butterfly or moth species … continue reading

IN SOUTHERN ITALY, THE LOOMING THREAT OF AN UNDERGROUND VOLCANO
BY: AGOSTINO PETRONI ... An uptick in small earthquakes has caught the attention of scientists, who watch for signs of an imminent eruption … continue reading

DEEP FAKES: HOW ARTIFICIALLY GENERATED IMAGES GIVE THEMSELVES AWAY
BY: RUHR-UNIVERSITAET-BOCHUM ... All it takes is a simple text command: in no time at all, artificial intelligence can generates … continue reading

READING AND MATH SCORES PLUMMET AS RACIAL AND SEXUAL ACTIVISM REPLACE ACADEMICS
BY: TONY KINNETT/DAILY SIGNAL ... As America's public education system reports the worst literacy and math performance in decades … continue reading

HOW THOUSANDS OF NURSES GOT LICENSED WITH FAKE DEGREES
BY: EMMA WHITFORD & JANET NOVACK ... There’s an old, but now fast growing degree mill industry doing an estimated $7 billion a year worldwide in fraudulent diplomas and transcripts … continue reading

IS THIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEAR PITTSBURGH THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION?
BY: KELLIE B. GORMLY ... It’s inevitable: Every year, kindergarteners arriving to school for the first time erupt into tears from the separation anxiety. But at one new Pittsburgh-area school … continue reading

NEARLY 2 MILLION STUDENTS HAVE LEFT PUBLIC SCHOOLS SINCE 2020
BY: MICHAEL GRYBOSKI ... Approximately 2 million students have left public schools since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic … continue reading

TEXAS RESEARCHERS USE OKRA TO REMOVE MICROPLASTICS FROM WASTEWATER
BY: JOURNALIST GOOD NEWS NETWORK ... The health effects of ingesting microplastics are unclear, but studies suggest that people unintentionally consume … continue reading

STINGLESS BEES BRING LIFE BACK TO THE AMAZON WITH MEDICINAL HONEY & NEW INCOME
BY: ANDY CORBLEY ... While the rest of modern civilization gets honey mostly from European honeybees, indigenous tribes … continue reading

MOST IMPORTANT PREHISTORIC DISCOVERY IN A CENTURY’ REVEALED BY BRITISH MUSEUM
BY: GOOD NEWS JOURNALIST ... The British Museum has announced the discovery of “the most important piece of prehistoric art to be found in Britain in the last 100 years … continue reading

THE TYRANNY OF THE WOKE
BY: SARAH N. STERN ... JNS.org – I remember my undergraduate days, several decades ago, very well … continue reading

PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE AT THE EPICENTER OF AMERICA’S VALUES IMPLOSION
BY: MICHAEL SNYDER ... t is often said that children are the future, and America’s children are being raised in nightmarish propaganda centers that are cesspools of sex, violence and just about every type of evil that you can possibly imagine. All the way through my education, I attended public schools, and they were really bad … continue reading

SHELL SHOCK
BY: NATURE.COM ... A biologist’s quest to save the endangered painted snail. In my laboratory at the University of Oriente, in Santiago de Cuba, we study the six species of Polymita, known as painted snails, which are endemic to eastern Cuba and are in danger of extinction. The shells’ vibrant swirls and stripes … continue reading

THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING TECHNIQUE THAT CAN CHANGE HOW YOU READ THE BIBLE
BY: TIM HIBSMAN ... The five W’s and one H is often referred to as a basic journalist technique. Whenever a Biblical passage is read there should be a quick analysis using the W’s to help comprehend the meaning and understanding. Journalists often love to ask questions. Likewise, intuitive readers of the Bible … continue reading

HOW A DEAD PROFESSOR IS TEACHING A UNIVERSITY ART HISTORY CLASS
BY: TAMARA KNEESE ... The fact that the dead can literally replace living faculty members is a perfect metaphor for what is happening across higher education. When a Concordia University student went to email his professor recently, he found out something startling … continue reading

HOW COVID HAS ACTUALLY IMPROVED SOME ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
BY: KATHERINE MARTINKO ... I'm a firm believer in trying to find the positive in any situation, but this philosophy has been hard to maintain at times during the coronavirus pandemic. Especially as my kids prepared to return to school in September after six months off, I felt anxious about what school would be like … continue reading

9 WAYS THAT SOCIALISM WILL MORALLY BANKRUPT AMERICA
BY: THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ... 1. Socialism is being marketed to young people as kind, selfless, and community-focused, 2. Many people are unaware of Socialism’s dismal record, and 3. Young people are not being taught America’s founding principles, so they are unprepared to combat the narratives they hear in their schools and colleges … continue reading

SMART DUST
BY: MAIZE. ... Smart Dust is a system of many tiny microelectromechanical systems such as sensors, robots, or other devices, that can detect light, temperature, vibration, magnetism, chemicals and other stimuli. In 1965, Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel, predicted that the number of components that could fit on a single chip could double every 2 years … continue reading

4 REASONS TO REPAIR INSTEAD OF RECYCLING OR REPLACING
BY: MELISSA BREYER ... 4 reasons to repair instead of recycling or replacing, it's time to jump off the consumption train and embrace the art of repair. Mending, darning, patching, painting, rewiring, gluing – we used to be a people of repair, of resourcefulness, of taking pride in our ability to tinker … continue reading

AFTER THE RAPTURE - LEFT BEHIND
BY: EDITOR ... What happens to life on planet earth after the 'Rapture' has been talked about, debated, given to fiction & nonfiction; but almost certainly never discussed at the dinner table. Talking about life after the 'Rapture' makes many people uneasy & usually ends up upsetting the reader or listerner or simply boring … continue reading