Inside the publishing industrial complex  Every few years, the curriculum changes. New specifications are announced, old resources become obsolete, training is scheduled, textbooks are rewritten, and teachers quietly begin the work of rebuildin...

Economists such as Bryan Caplan have long argued that formal education serves not merely to impart knowledge, but to signal desirable traits to employers. Degrees communicate that their holders are intelligent, diligent, compliant, and capable of su...

The Dictator’s Butterfly and the Problem for History In the previous post, we explored how the Butterfly Effect might also apply to human history. To recap: the Butterfly Effect suggests that in some systems, very small events can lead to very large...

The Butterfly Effect The Butterfly Effect is a well-known idea from science, especially from chaos theory. It suggests that very small events can sometimes lead to very large outcomes. For example, a butterfly flapping its wings could (in theory) he...

The UK's education system is struggling to meet the demands of a rapidly changing society. The democratisation of media communication allows almost everyone to produce content via social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram, an...