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Why Traditional Education Fails at Teaching Complex Problem Solving in STEM
The Problem with “Right Answer” Education For decades, education has been built around efficiency — standard curricula, predictable assessments, and measurable outcomes. This structure was designed for a world that needed predictable workers, not adaptable thinkers. In STEM classrooms, students still spend most of their time solving problems that already have known answers. They follow step-by-step procedures, plug values into formulas, and check their work against the correc

Graham Armitage
Oct 183 min read


DIY vs. Commercial Systems: What Researchers Need to Know
In the world of behavioral research, data quality, system flexibility, and budget constraints are constant considerations. When it comes...

Graham Armitage
Aug 183 min read


3 Signs Your Lab Is Ready for Automation (Even If You Think You’re Not)
Many Labs Think They're Not 'Tech' Enough Many researchers assume that lab automation is expensive, complicated, or only useful at scale....

Graham Armitage
Aug 181 min read


Why Manual Data Collection Is Harming Your Research.
In the high-stakes world of academic research, precision is everything. Despite rapid technological advancements, many research labs...

Graham Armitage
Aug 182 min read


How AI is Changing Data Collection and Analysis in Research
AI Isn’t the Future of Research—It’s Already Here When most researchers think of AI, they picture big tech companies crunching massive...

Graham Armitage
Aug 72 min read


How Automation Improves Reproducibility (and Keeps Reviewers Happy)
The Reproducibility Problem Isn’t Going Away If you’ve submitted a paper or grant proposal lately, you’ve probably noticed reviewers...

Graham Armitage
Aug 42 min read


Automation On A Research Budget
There is never enough We all know that manual tasks equal labor hours. It is estimated that up to 30% of a lab’s budget can be consumed...

Graham Armitage
Jul 234 min read


PIR Sensors - It's Complicated
Potential challenges of using off the shelf PIR sensors when it comes to data integrity.

Graham Armitage
May 58 min read
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