Mathematics for Liberation; A voting guide
The following voting guide was created by students enrolled in a math course at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington, taught by WAESN board director, Shraddha Shirude,...
04/19/2023
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The Physical Toll of Your Smartphone Addiction | Skeptical Inquirer
The least-used app on my phone is “phone.” The diverse functionality of the smartphone—texting, talking, video streaming, gaming, social networking—has changed the way we work,...
04/19/2023
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Smashing Eduprotocols
What happens when you smash three EDUProtocols into one? You get an alternative assessment that gets your students talking about the book they are reading in your class. The...
04/19/2023
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Guide to the Most Common Cognitive Biases and Heuristics
Guide to the Most Common Cognitive Biases and Heuristics 4 Comments Our brains have to process an infinite amount of stimuli and make an endless number of decisions. So to save...
04/18/2023
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How Social Media Rewards Misinformation
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, posts and videos promoting natural remedies for the virus—everything from steam inhalation to ginger—proliferated online. What...
04/18/2023
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How Skepticism (not Cynicism) Can Raise Scientific Standards and Reform the Health and Wellness Industry
Superstition and pseudoscience extend back to the dawn of civilization. In Mesopotamia—the birthplace of writing and recorded history—illnesses were “treated” by offering...
04/18/2023
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In Defense of Public Education
Thank you, Kourtney, Alison, Traci and Tamara. Today, we once again grieve for families shattered by senseless gun violence. Please join me in a moment of silence for the lives...
04/17/2023
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Why We Can’t Recycle Our Way Out of the Plastic Apocalypse
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Almost exactly one year ago, I made a video in which I...
01/20/2023
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How Science Fuels a Culture of Misinformation
Culture How Science Fuels a Culture of Misinformation We tend to blame the glut of disinformation in science on social media and the news, but the problem often starts with the...
06/17/2022
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Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U.S.? (2019 edition)
Critical Thinking Science and Medicine Science and the Media Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U.S.? (2019 edition) The claim that medical...
06/11/2022
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Ten Health and Wellness Buzzwords Every Skeptic Should Know | Skeptical Inquirer
Ten Health and Wellness Buzzwords Every Skeptic Should Know Tweet The word rhetoric, derived from the Greek noun “rhetor” meaning “speaker,” was once considered the art of...
06/08/2022
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Promoting Effective Communication Skills in Students - TeachHUB
Before I went into administration, I got to teach speech for a couple of years (ten years of teaching technology applications) at the middle school where I taught in Texas. In...
06/15/2021
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