Despite the media attention that school shootings such as the tragedy in Parkland generate, the number of such incidents has actually gone down considerably over the past three decades, according to a recently released academic study.
Former President Barack Obama dropped in at a sports analytics conference at MIT and defended his administration as scandal-free even while offering a revealing codicil to the defense.
When a Louisiana high school student remarked in class that the square root symbol looked like a gun, the local police investigated him and cleared him but the school did not.