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2010

“Overwhelmed by curriculum standards, American teachers warn there’s no room in the day for a creativity class,” Newsweek wrote, citing students’ declining scores on the Torrance creativity test. The magazine asked: Is creativity learnable? “Well, think of it like basketball. Being tall does help to be a pro basketball player, but the rest of us can still get quite good at the sport through practice.” Children’s scores on the Torrance test have continued to plummet over the last decade, with some researchers pointing to overscheduled lives and constant, prepackaged entertainment as reasons.

1976

“The celebratory mood was at least premature and possibly dangerous,” Newsweek said of the Democratic National Party convention. “Carter remains a novice, however gifted, in national politics.” He would go on to win the election. This May, the 97-year-old former president weighed in on a court case involving his 1980 Alaska Conservation Act.

1981

“No one knows what purpose dreams serve,” Newsweek wrote, while detailing a new theory that dreams in REM sleep help our brains organize and store information. Having weird dreams during the pandemic? You’re not alone. Researchers reported a surge in vivid dreams and nightmares following March 2020.