In his quiet, modest way, Glenn was proud of his robot. It was 1974, at a local high school science fair in Boca Raton, Florida, and Glenn, a 15-year-old sophomore, had spent months painstakingly constructing a jumble of wires and circuits...
Near the end of the school day Wednesday, students at the Tuolumne Learning Center played guitars, talked among themselves and asked polite and curious questions to a class visitor. Laptop computers were closed on their desks and books were neatly put...
When a young Kurdish man hosted in a temporary reception center in Milan started swiping through some pictures on his phone, one of the center's staff members was shocked by what he saw. An image of a man hanging by his neck appeared on the...
With a tremendous amount of fanfare five years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a $100 million donation to the Newark school district on the Oprah Winfrey Show with the Big Hairy Audacious Goal of fixing the public school system...
Reminders of death tend to inspire specific—and predictable—thoughts and feelings. Previous research has shown that, when faced with our own mortality, most of us cling tight to the affiliations that give our lives...
It was honor that brought me to my hometown Jr High School. And it was on the steps of my old high school that shame and honor crossed paths. To be continued...
A Yale researcher has launched an online resource for would-be mass shooters—prompted by his own brush with the impulse to kill. As a teenager seeking revenge, he once came close to murder. Now this Yale researcher wants to target...
When new mom Hayden Panettiere sought help at a treatment center for postpartum depression , several outlets noted the similarity between her real-life storyline and that of her character on the show Nashville, country singer...
In the fall of 2003, police in New Jersey received a call from a concerned neighbor who’d found a boy rummaging in her garbage, looking for food. He was 19 years old but was four feet tall and weighed just 45 pounds. Investigators soon...
Princeton University economist Angus Deaton received this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics because his work elevates the understanding of individual and household consumption and is key to devising...
Last year when I attempted to pick my daughter up from school, the volunteers in the carpool line tried to put a fourth grader in my car, not the four year old I was attempting to retrieve. Both of us were vehemently shaking our heads, both of...
After Tara Conner talked with children at Daybreak Youth Services about their addiction struggles, the 29-year-old went back to her hotel room and cried for an hour. Then, she did some writing and prayed. She knows the strife those teens are...
In a card game, holding aces is an advantage. But in life, having too many aces can make a person miserable. Those kind of ACEs go by the formal term of adverse childhood experiences. They were defined in a 1995-1997 study in San Diego,...
School and public health officials say teachers need to know what’s going on in their students’ home lives to help them succeed. At the Glenn Massay Theater on Saturday night, Mat-Su Health Foundation (MSHF) hosted a second showing...
Here is a short video of me introducing the film Paper Tigers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. https://www.facebook.com/jeffr...=6422603447808515859