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
What makes a language a language? Simple, right? Any time humans get together and use a collectively-recognized series of utterances
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
To most scientists, human emotion is something to be minimized at all costs in their pursuit of rigorously objective understanding
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
If a tree falls in a forest with nobody to hear it, does it still make a sound? For many, this
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.
Perpetual Reform
Education is one of those curious topics that manages to display unparalleled consensus and divergence simultaneously.