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Classroom 4

In this award-winning short, inmates and college students explore the history of incarceration from inside a US prison - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Children are apprentices

The emotional and practical skills of adulthood can only be learned from (appropriate) levels of discomfort and stress - by Niklas Serning & Nina Lyon Read on Aeon

The shared tragedy of Red Queen hiring

Runaway selection happens when organizations compete with each other far beyond the point where it’s rational to do so. We see this in species as well–peacocks have ungainly and inefficient feather displays because, as Alice’s Red Queen said, “It takes all the running you can