Jonathan Haidt

Great 7 minute video on the mismatch between how boys learn and what schools make them do. And how we use Adderall to bridge the gap, rather than giving them what they need: more play, movement, and hands-on activity. From @Robmontz

This is a great report, on what girls think about social media, from a leading researcher, @JacquelineNesi. Shows the things that the girls themselves consider to be positives, and negatives.

Great article, Joe, thank you, i'll cite this in my response

Here's a great interview with @jflier, former dean of Harvard Med school, and board member of @HdxAcademy, on worrisome trends in academic freedom within medicine:

Great post from Freddie DeBoer on the causal pathways by which smartphones/social-media damage teen mental health. Especially: "Digital substitutions for real-world social engagement reduce the drive to be social but don’t satisfy emotional needs."

Excellent work by @DavidRozado on WHICH terms from the Great Awokening seem to be past peak (most of them) and which are not (the more positive justice words)

A really helpful substack post on rumination, from @sambmd. 6 ways to break the cycle, including: avoid co-rumination.

Here's a review of an excellent new book from a cognitive psychologist on how to get smarter. Aimed at college and high school students, but good for all

I rarely encounter scholarship from France. This essay by Nathalie Heinich is excellent, on how French theory influenced America, which now comes back to France. But France can resist the added Protestant guilt and identitarian elements:

A great thread from @HdxAcademy's exec director; what he's seen in his first 4 months. What our mission is...

1. So many of the best things I read are in @NoemaMag. So many of the best essays on social media are by Renee DiResta (@noUpside). Here's an extraordinary essay by DiResta in Noema, on how social media turns people into Starlings, murmurating:

This essay on “The Problem with Student Centered Education” is so important. A perfect illustration of how "good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure." @glukianoff By @NinaLPowell and @Bekahknowsbs, at @hdxacademy