Splendid article from #undark magazine: « If Bees Can Prevent Bad Information From Going Viral, so Can We » 🐝🦠

https://undark.org/2019/02/05/bees-collective-intelligence/

Your "Recycled" Grocery Bag Might Not Be
https://undark.org/2023/03/20/your-recycled-grocery-bag-might-not-have-been-recycled/ #undark #recycling #plasticbags #GroceryBags

"Yerkes declared that ... the tests measured innate intelligence rather than education. “It behooves us to consider their reliability and their meaning, for no one of us as a citizen can afford to ignore the menace of race deterioration”."

The racist past - and present - of standardised tests in the US, by Deborah Blum in Undark.

⚠️ Long read ⚠️

https://race.undark.org/articles/born-of-eugenics-can-standardized-testing-escape-its-past

#LongReads #DeborahBlum #Undark #ScientificRacism #StandardizedTesting #SATs #Education #USA