NASHVILLE—Vanderbilt University law professor Carol Swain resolves to stare at a blank wall until she retires. In an attempt to come up with a good idea for her upcoming screenplay for the Netflix original, How to Get Away with Trolling, she… Read More ›
Education
Fourth graders stun scholars with incisive Rothko analyses
COLUMBUS, OH—A group of home-schooled fourth graders have established a new interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal entitled Midwest Journal of the Metaphysics of Art, stunning professors and graduate students from disciplines ranging from the arts to biomedical engineering. “The problem with postmodern art is that… Read More ›
Autistic woman with debilitating brain disorder teaches entire school the essentials of public speaking
TAICHUNG, TAIWAN—All 190 students enrolled in an international school in Taiwan attended a course taught by 60-year-old Egyptian Aazeen Nagra, who, in spite of her diagnosis with severe autism, taught the student body how to communicate verbally and effectively. In… Read More ›
Study shows 93 percent of international school students have idiopathic hallucinations
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, IL—A study done at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) shows that 93 percent of international school students experience hallucinations. The source of these hallucinations has not been determined, but researchers are beginning to suspect that genetics may… Read More ›
City government contributes 2 billion dollars to high school field trip fundraiser to combat teenage depression
TAICHUNG, TAIWAN—In an effort to combat teenage depression, the city government of Taichung has promised to contribute more than two billion dollars to a high school field trip fundraiser at the American School in Taichung (AST). The government’s largesse comes… Read More ›