Queen’s one & only appearance on Saturday Night Live was on this day, September 25th, in 1982. Here’s one track from that iconic performance, the unmitigated classic, ‘Under Pressure’, in full & unedited. RIP Freddie, legend.

She was walking past when she overheard a worker casually say how much he wished he had a root beer float. It was nothing more than an offhand comment, but she tucked it away. A little later, she showed up with one in hand and offered it to him. The small surprise left him

When journals like Nature present themselves as neutral arbiters of science but function as political engines, they reveal themselves as part of the same problem. I just read each and every article on universities in this current issue of Nature. What struck me is what wasn’t

Once in a lifetime moment.

The Dodgers fan who caught Teoscar’s second home run last night is a legend

Got to surprise some fans sitting in the last row of Yankee stadium with front row seats and they had the best reaction ever 🙏

IQ scores only predict how well you do on IQ tests... and just a few other things. [Link below.]

A Fragmented Field: Construct and Measure Proliferation in Psychology - Farid Anvari, Taym Alsalti, Lorenz A. Oehler, Zach Marion, Ian Hussey, Malte Elson, Ruben C. Arslan, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Carl Sagan's prediction of America, made 30 years ago.

The Innovation Illusion: Most of what’s worth knowing in education isn’t new, and most of what’s new isn’t worth knowing.

A must read from Carl Hendrick for those who care about #equity in and through education. As a pre-service & practicing teacher in the late 90s & 2000s, I learned all about edu-myths like Learning Styles & Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences. This kind of pseudoscience was

Full segment below; link to column: nytimes.com/2025/10/09/opi… David Brooks, I would be glad to give you an overview of the work in these states. I was the first person to write about the Southern Surge; it’s work I have been following for years. My own overview:

If scientists wants science to be taken seriously, they've got to stop doing stupid stuff like publishing the zillionth study claiming that groupwise disparities are proof of bigotry, and then firing scientists who point out the obvious flaw in that reasoning.

MIT says it’s already meeting many Trump Administration requests and rejects several others. wsj.com/opinion/trump-… via Wall Street Journal Opinion

Who decided to drop the SAT? Janet Napolitano, politician & lawyer, JD John Perez, politician, college dropout Who decided to reinstate the SAT? Sian Beilock, professor, PhD in cognitive psychology The lesson? Faculty need to step up No more politicians, no more CEOs

New Mexico State Psychology is seeking applications for three! online College Assistant Professor positions starting in Fall 2026. This is a great opportunity for remote work. Our online Psych program is thriving, experiencing rapid growth. Come join us. careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/college-a…

We’ve defended higher ed from both government overreach and ideological litmus tests. But now academia’s biggest guild says diversity of thought itself is “anathema“ denying even the existence of the most basic and obvious problem in higher education. Admitting a lack of

"A teacher shouldn’t have to marry a psychologist in order to learn that Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences is wrong." [Link below.]