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MCAT CARS and What’s Happening to Scientific Research

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 11 Link to the full article: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/three-trends-threaten-science-research-by-jeremy-j-baumberg–2018–09 Scientific knowledge and technological innovation, as Yuval Noah Harari emphasizes in his book Sapiens: A Brief History…

We Use Our MCAT CARS Skills to Read About an Author

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 10 Link to the full article: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/rivalry-feud/varieties-ether In 1931 Pearl S. Buck published the novel The Good Earth. Buck was born in the United…

Do Longer Books Equal Better Books? Using Our MCAT Skills

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 09 Link to the full article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/21/the-guardian-view-on-lengthening-books-read-them-and-weep At 500 pages, The Overstory is a “majestic redwood” of a novel. Its place on this week’s…

CARS Skills to Learn if All Famous People Have Footnotes

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 08 Link to the full article: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/footnotes The famous,” wrote Elizabeth Hardwick in her essay “Wives and Mistresses,” “carry about with them a great…

How Can Beyonce Help Our MCAT CARS Reading Skills?

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 07 Link to the full article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/arts/music/celebrity-profile-death.html All glossy magazine superstar covers may look the same from a distance, but inside, you’re never quite…

Using Our CARS Skills for a Passage About the Printed Word

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 06 Link to the full article: https://harpers.org/archive/2018/10/the-printed-word-in-peril/ In February, at an event at the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center in New York, while…

MCAT CARS Skills—A Passage About Horror and Culture

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 05 As a lover of Horror, this passage was an interesting one to follow. The author talks about his history with horror and its…

Critically Thinking Through a Dry Passage about a Book

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 04 Link to the full article: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/09/howard-zinn-in-history-class-teachers-and-a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states.html With more than 2 million copies in print, Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States…

MCAT CARS Skills—Quantum Computers in a Hot Tub

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 03 This week we break down another great article, this time from Gizmodo, about quantum computers. Read along in the show notes to improve…

MCAT CARS Passage Skills—Times Article Breakdown

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 02 The first MCAT CARS Podcast breaking down an article sentence by sentence to help you better understand what you’re reading to improve your…