education
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All of Us Are Dead Makes High School Even Scarier
Netflix has had a pretty good stack of South Korean shows lately. Squid Game took off as a big success, but if Kingdom and Hellbound are any indication, it’s Korean horror that the streaming service likes. Fortunately, they’ve got a new terrifying tale on the way in the form of the upcoming All of Us Are Dead.
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Good News: Watching Lectures at 2X Speed Might Not Be So Bad After All
One of the (many) significant social shifts thrust upon humanity during the pandemic was the sudden switch to remote learning and pre-recorded lectures. While recorded lectures and online education as a whole have been around for years, the early months of the pandemic forced millions to accept it as the new norm.
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The ABCs of Big Oil: The Father of Forestry’s Influence on Big Oil
On the ABCs of Big Oil, a new podcast miniseries from Earther and Drilled, climate journalist Amy Westervelt and I have spent two episodes looking into the oil and gas industry’s century-long assault on American education; how it has shaped school curricula to limit how Americans think about the climate crisis and how to take…
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TikTok Bans Videos on ‘Devious Licks’ of School Property, Which Apparently Refers to Stealing Things
TikTok’s latest ban on “devious licks” videos really brought out my inner Old. Considering the crazy things the Youth and others do on TikTok nowadays, I sincerely thought the kids were out licking things in a pandemic, which is both alarming and gross. Thankfully, I was wrong, but the alternative is perhaps more disturbing: These…