Check out "Story-Based Tinkering at Home: STEM Learning During COVID" videohall.com/p/1977 #STEMvideohall

NWS Tornado Spotter Network report of a tornado on the ground near Bensenville. Not good.

“Children who do well at spatial tasks such as reading maps and assembling puzzles are more likely to excel in #STEM. We know it’s important, but few people teach it. We're trying to change that.”' --psychologist David Uttal of Northwestern. spr.ly/6016Juu1I

Thanks to U.S. National Science Foundation and IES Research tinyurl.com/3r53hnrp

CNN medical analyst Dr. Peter Hotez to G7 leaders on Omicron: ‘Forget about the travel bans, let’s go vaccinate the African people’ • Today News Africa todaynewsafrica.com/cnn-medical-an…

Journos' efforts to appear balanced can backfire when they lend credibility to an idea that most experts consider unmerited, according to new Northwestern research by David N. Rapp + alumna @ImundoMegan. The study: spr.ly/6019J2yfH. Northwestern Sources #bothsidesism

Thank you Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)

We start 2022 by sharing a meta-analysis of the relationship between #spatial #skills and #Maths titled "Examining the relations between spatial skills and mathematical performance: A meta-analysis" by Atit & cols. You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.3758/s13423…

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I find this problem getting worse with age, or it might also be I've acquired more tasks that need attention lnkd.in/gS466iwi

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I don't like rankings but am nevertheless happy that Northwestern's Psychology Department has cracked the top 10, at Number 9.

Why don't we just give up on area codes and let people choose their own digits, much as we do with 800 numbers? Area codes don't mean much anymore.

Some personal news

Celebrate with me. Today’s California Native American Day. Today we honor those Natives Indigenous to California.

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I am trying to deactivate my "other" account, David Uttal. This one, aka David Uttal, will be the only one.

.The Daily Northwestern reporters broke national stories about the school’s prestigious football team, hazing, sexual assault + racism. Head coach Pat Fitzgerald was slapped w/ a 2-wk suspension. But after the students' stories, he’s now out. THIS is the impact of student journalists.

Bernie had to intervene