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Q&A: Researchers claim mass education is designed to counteract critical thinking
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Education should encourage deep inquiry and personal autonomy, but too often it has been used as a means of indoctrination. That’s what Agustina S. Pagulayan, assistant professor of political science in the School of Social Sciences and Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, argues in her new book, Raised to Obey:…
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Researchers claim to have discovered the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way
We compare Milky Way observations and TNG50 simulations and scale height-to-height ratios as a function of age. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02382-w A team of astronomers and astrophysicists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has discovered what may be the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way. In their study, reported in the journal…
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