Historical Perspective
Princeton University historian David Cannadine describes how the study of history gives us a much deeper understanding of many important contemporary issues.
Tag: critical thinking
Experimental Morality
Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal investigates the extent to which our moral judgements can be extended to other animals.
Overcoming Impossible
Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt’s remarkable discovery of natural quasicrystals demonstrates the importance that persistence plays in scientific breakthroughs.
Embracing the Unknown
Northeastern University psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett on how harnessing theory of knowledge can deepen one’s understanding of emotions.
Culturally Relevant
We are in a situation where virtually everyone has heard about “The Two Cultures”, but most of us are actually wrong about its meaning.
Personal Perspectives
Personal Perspectives offers candid glimpses of the motivations, passions and frustrations of a variety of researchers at the front lines of knowledge.
Communicating Concepts
Communicating Concepts focuses on the challenges and opportunities associated with the communication of knowledge.
Heeding the Signs
UC San Diego linguist Carol Padden describes how Bill Stokoe’s pioneering work on ASL helped shed vital light on the nature of all languages.
Recognizing Defeat?
Princeton University cosmologist Paul Steinhardt describes how many physicists stubbornly refuse to abandon a theory of the universe he helped develop.
Emotional Rescue
UNC Chapel Hill social psychologist Barbara Fredrickson describes how positive emotions help us to better understand and adapt to the world around us.
Talking Democracy
University of Cambridge political scientist John Dunn’s insights on the role of etymology in his research.
Imagining the Past
University of Oxford historian John Elliott on the key role of imagination when historians examine historical records since they are usually written from only one perspective.
Falling Trees
Psychologist Diana Deutsch, UC San Diego, and her investigations into how we experience sound and music.
Redefining Progress
Princeton University historian of science Michael Gordin on falsification and science vs. pseudoscience.
Discovering the IBDP
A decade later, a friend of mine mentioned in passing that, given my interests in education, I should check out the IB’s Diploma Programme.