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‘Thanks, Textbooks’ Collects The Silliest Parts Of Inexplicably Real Textbooks

By RoboPanda | 3 comments

Single-serving Tumblr site "Thanks, Textbooks" collects the funniest, most asinine things found in real textbooks. We feel smarter already.

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26 States Actually Want to Teach Science

26 States Actually Want to Teach Science

By Dan Seitz | 7 comments

If there's one problem that's defined science in America in the twenty-first century, it's the fact that a small but vocal and politically active part of the country wants to jam their fingers in their ears and scream about how it's not true because this book they've never actually bothered to read closely or understand the history of says its not true so shut up.

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Leave Sasha Grey Alone!

Leave Sasha Grey Alone!

By The Cajun Boy | 54 comments

A few days ago photos surfaced of former adult film actress Sasha Grey reading to a classroom full of kids in a California school, causing approximately half of the internet to lose its f*cking mind.

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Are You Drunk Because You’re Smart Or Smart Because You’re Drunk?

By Ashley Burns | 5 comments

As a writer and a drinker, I probably don’t go a week without coming up with a drunken idea that I think is great, sharing it with friends, having them tell me it’s great, and then going to bed with this awesome idea and the monumental challenge of remembering it the next day.

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Will Dualbooks Enhance Education?

By Ashley Burns

One of my biggest complaints about going to school was always having to lug around a backpack with a bunch of big old books for my classes.

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Can I Go To Video Game School, Too?

Can I Go To Video Game School, Too?

By RoboPanda | 3 comments

Katie Salen, a professor and game designer, and Robert Torres, a learning scientist and former school principal, founded the Quest to Learn school in New York City, and holy crap this school sounds awesome:Salen and Torres are at the forefront of a small but increasingly influential group of education specialists who believe that going to school can and should be more like playing a game, which is to say it could be made more participatory, more immersive and also, well, fun.

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