Are the brains of boys and girls so different that they require different styles of teaching? Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s appointment as Secretary of Education, thinks they are and supports segregated schools where girls are rewarded for good performance with a dab of perfume.  (â€

Wherever there are humans, there is a pecking order.  In the field of research, the dividing line lies between science and social science.  Hard science works with data that can be measured and the results verified by others.  Social sciences can sometimes seem a little more like j

I went to a conference last weekend, one of those all day affairs that starts with coffee and bear claws, is followed by a high caloric lunch and ends with coffee and cookies in the late afternoon. To my right, at my table, sat a portly woman with a pleasant face. She was biting into