Provocative post from Slate: How important is preschool? If you are researching early education philosophies, not very. In work they conducted at the University of Kansas and chronicled in their book Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children, Betty Hart and Todd Risley recorded, for two-and-a-half years, a full hour of conversation every […]
Video: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Wu-Tang’s GZA on Hip Hop and Science
An astrophysicist and a rapper walked into a studio… StarTalk Radio is astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s NSF-sponsored show, and is distributed on YouTube. This episode features GZA (pronounced “Jizza”), a founding member of the 1990s hip hop collective The Wu-Tang Clan, and Christopher Emdin (@chrisemdin | Columbia University), who teaches at the intersection between science […]