Flunking Exams Actually a … Good Thing?

An article in The New York Times highlights a new classroom learning technique—the "pre-final" test. Students take their final on the ...

Your Brain Has 500 Trillion Connections

Your body, including your brain, is fearfully and wonderfully made. In the book Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am? science writer Joshua Foer explains ...

Farmers Need to Pause and Sharpen Their Blades

Once, when my wife, Gail, and I were hiking the high meadows of the Swiss Alps, we saw two farmers cutting the high-standing mountain grasses with scythes, ...

Research on the Best Methods of Study

Scripture memorization can be a powerful practice that not only helps you to remember a truth but also to understand it better.

This idea draws support ...

No Slack for Intellectual Slackers

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you [that] you are embarking ...

Living Life with Eyes Wide Open

Erwin Raphael McManus writes in The Barbarian Way:

We had an incident while Jet Skiing off the coast of Wellington [during our family vacation to New Zealand]. ...

Medical Student Learns Valuable Lesson

In his book Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Atul Gawande recalls a patient he encountered during his final year of medical school. The older ...

Quickly Versus Deeply

Larry McMurtry, known for his [book] Lonesome Dove, wrote another book about roads—the many roads he had driven on and the hundreds of miles he ...

Sparking the Flame of Knowledge

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

—William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist, 1865–1939

Award-Winning Novel Rejected

Getting a novel published is an extremely difficult affair, especially if you are an unknown author. One freelance writer named Chuck Ross decided to ...