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News for Nerds - The Knives and Forks Edition

Welcome back to News for Nerds! This week we learn about plants that can do math, a clever solution to locking yourself out of the house, and the world's fastest trains. But first, here are your headlines.

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Many Americans are worri

Building A Better Student: Stuck In The Middle

Dante left out a circle of Hell when he wrote Inferno. He imagined only nine areas of suffering, but he forgot about middle school.



In an informal survey, the majority of adults looked back and pegged those two or three years as the most miserable time of their lives. I’

Building A Better Student: The Phoenix

About four billion years ago, during our solar system’s infancy, there was a mighty cosmic collision. A slightly smaller planet than ours - roughly the size of Mars - slammed into Earth, a catastrophic event that nearly wiped out our world. But it was a glancing blow, so instead of shatt

News for Nerds - The Contagious Edition

Welcome back to News for Nerds! This week we learn why toothpaste and orange juice don't mix, we take the world's most dramatic self-portrait, and we glimpse the future of license plates. But first, here are your headlines.

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News for Nerds - The DNA Fog Edition

Welcome back to News for Nerds! This week we learn some things we didn't know about dinosaurs, we check out some monster mosquitoes and crazy ants, and we explain why your intuition may be letting you down. But first, here are your headlines.

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Building A Better Student: Solitude and Creativity

There are few things that make me cringe more than receiving notice of an upcoming “brainstorming” meeting. What the notice should say is, “Please join our group as we stare at each other and accomplish little.”



I’m sure there have been some great

Building A Better Student: Plugging The Summer Brain Drain

As kids, we loved our summer breaks. As parents and teachers, we sometimes wonder if it derails a kid’s progress in school. Often referred to as "the summer brain drain," the worry is that too much down time allows students to not only fritter away what they might have learned

News for Nerds - The 'Better with Age' Edition

Welcome back to News for Nerds! This week we'll take a quick trip into orbit, we'll play with life-sized LEGOs, we'll meet the next generation of robot helpers, and we'll get to the bottom of that itch that's been driving you crazy. But first, here are your headlines.

Building A Better Student: The Digital Ever After

Here’s a tale of two mistakes, separated in time.



Let’s start with Amanda, a bright, outgoing young woman, and a pretty good student with lots of friends. Most of her fellow middle school classmates are - like her - good kids, but occasionally they test boundaries.

News for Nerds - The Twister Edition

Welcome back to News for Nerds! This week we learn how NASA plans to feed the astronauts of the future, we share the location for the world's oldest water, and we sniff out some unlikely bomb detectors. But first, here are your headlines.

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