Source: The Music Lab The Department of Psychology at Harvard University has opened The Music Lab, an attempt at learning how humans use music. Right now there are four different tests you can take online. I took the tone-deafness test, and was better than 60% of the people who have taken the test. I’m a little disappointed…
What’s in this list? In this collection of Scratch projects, we’ve tried to represent the vastly diverse ways that Scratch can be used across subject areas and grade levels. Though we have divided the projects by subject area, almost all of these projects are interdisciplinary. How can I use this list? In addition to interacting with…
Harvard College rescinded admissions offers to at least ten prospective members of the Class of 2021 after the students traded sexually explicit memes and messages that sometimes targeted minority groups in a private Facebook group chat. A handful of admitted students formed the messaging group—titled, at one point, “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens”—on Facebook…
Harvard’s CS50 class, Introduction to Computer Science I, has become very popular, swelling in size to 636 students this past term. Unfortunately, the increase in popularity hasn’t been without its problems. More than 60 students enrolled in Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science I” last semester appeared before the College’s Honor Council in a wave…