Better teaching through chemistry?
One of my favourite books of last year was Yuval Noah Harari's magnificent Sapiens. It looks like his new tome, Homo Deus, is going to be just as fascinating if the rest of it lives up to the first couple of chapters. The book charts some of humanity's possible futures but is also an attempt to force readers to rethink their thoughts of the future by exploring and understanding our history. One of the most compelling ideas to surface so far concerns education. Harari pints out what anyone on edu-Twitter knows well: Whether in ancient China or Victorian Britain, everybody has his or [...]