The great Walt Whitman is often attributed with the saying, “Be curious, not judgmental.” Whether or not he really uttered those words, it’s a powerful reminder to always look at the world with ...

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Stand before a mirror and raise your right hand. The person staring back lifts what looks like the left. It feels like a trick, almost a quiet betrayal. But the mirror is not playing games. It follows ...

A Colorado charter school quickly backed down from teaching creationism to eighth graders, but the incident illustrates that a lot of the public, and some people within public schools, ...

From Latin drills to hands-on ceramics, schools are embracing the ancient trivium to cultivate critical thinking and a love of learning.

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A shark that lays eggs in the shape of a corkscrew, a bird that gets drunk on fermented fruit, and a park that sinks ...

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The environmentalist founded the field of co-evolution, and warned that rapid human expansion would cause biodiversity collapse and famine.

The Cleveland Arcade decorated with American flags for the U.S. Bicentennial in October 1976 in Cleveland. (Howard Ruffner/Getty Images) Table of Contents In July, the United States will celebrate ...