Why Do Some of Our Best Minds Speak "Higher Twaddle"?
Why do some smart folk spout such bad ideas? Marilynne Robinson says it's because we teach them "higher twaddle.” She's right, but the situation is worse than she fears.
29 November, 2017
Illustration by Julia Suits, The New Yorker cartoonist & author of The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions
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A British Teenager Finds an Error in NASA's Space Station Data
A 17-year-old British schoolboy spots an error in the data from International Space Station's radiation sensors.
27 March, 2017
The International Space Station (ISS) is seen from NASA space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation May 29, 2011 in space. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)
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