Banning cell phone use during class resulted in higher test scores. As Gurwinder says, it's an easy intervention, and unlikely to do any harm.
The microplastics worry is based on sloppy studies.
Tyler Cowen has a theory that had not occurred to me about Trump's foreign policy goal: A unified Western Hemisphere as a counter to China's rising power. Well, it's a theory. And it's a fascinating new way to look at things. It does rather fall into the "first, catch your rabbit" category.
Bskings True Crime Part 5 is up.
Seth Dillon of the Babylon Bee sees bad ideas, particularly antisemitism, rising on the Right. This ties in to my previous comments about double-siloing. The internet allows groups within groups to talk almost exclusively with each other, having little contact with larger trends. Not only are these not your grandfather's conservatives, they aren't even your children's conservatives. There was something of this among both evangelicals and libertarians in the 80s and 90s
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"Banning cell phone use during class resulted in higher test scores."
But if you ban cell phone use EXCEPT during the test, you'd get even higher scores!
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