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Education, Healthcare, and STEM…
Can Fusion Energy Reset the Future for Our Species and Planet?
By Roger Weber Amid 2022’s countless stories of varied import and legacy - Russia invades Ukraine, Roe v. Wade overturned, Artemis orbits...
After Covid-19, Do People Really Want to Live in Cities?
Covid-19 taught the country many things, but among the more interesting things it taught us are the findings that the majority of people...
Why did Intel Pick Ohio to Build One of the World's Largest Semiconductor Factories?
It’s hardly news to the residents of central Ohio, where it has been splashed across the front pages for weeks, but Intel recently...
For College Admissions, Bring Back the SAT and ACT
Another year of college admissions, and yet more colleges have dropped the SAT and ACT from their criteria for admissions. I’d argue they...
The Post-Covid Return to a “Work from Work” Economy Misses a Massive Opportunity
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, after a few months of a surprisingly seamless work from home experience, businesses across America raced...
Big Ten Conference 2021 Academic Standings
Here is a ranking of schools in the Big Ten conference, sorted by most recent academic statistics. In parentheses are the average SAT...
Ten Ways Cities Fought Pandemics Before COVID-19
1850 can teach us a lot about coronavirus, and about life. As the US took its first steps toward the Civil War and the formation of its...
How Do You Get Into College? This is the One Question Your College Application Must Answer
The following does not constitute advice. But it strikes me that many a college applicant would be better served approaching the college...
If the Ivy League Expanded, Who Would It Add?
Directionally, Harvard has a lot of suitors: Vanderbilt, “Harvard of the South”, Michigan, “Harvard of the West”, even Miami of Ohio,...
To Fix Healthcare, Consider Scrapping the Hippocratic Oath
How would we solve medicine if doctors thought more like economists? Though it has been at the forefront of American political discourse...
Is the Big Ten or the SEC a Better Academic Conference?
In 1835, Ohio and Michigan fought a near-bloodless battle over the boundary between their two states that left one dead and tensions...
NCAA Power Five Conference Academic Rankings
Here are the most up-to-date rankings of the five NCAA power conferences in median academic standards among the schools. For comparison:...
Saudi Arabia's NEOM is Breeding a New City Built Around Genetic Engineering
Cities for people or people for cities? An unlikely marriage between city planning and gene modification is reinventing the future city....
Ranking the Cities With the Greatest National Appeal to College Graduates
In 2018 the Wall Street Journal published this piece that examined where graduates from top colleges move after they finish college. It...
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