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Computer hackers revealed electronic communications involving Pennsylvania State University’s Professor Michael Mann and England’s University of East Anglia Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit, in November of 2009. The media scrutinized these e-mails because they implied that there was some misbehavior involving the two men. It seemed that statistics were kept [...]

Political leaders, tech executives, and academics often claim that the U.S. is falling behind in math and science education. They cite poor test results, declining international rankings, and decreasing enrollment in the hard sciences. They urge us to improve our education system and to graduate more engineers and scientists to keep pace with countries such [...]