Changing Vocabularies
UCLA historian Nile Green describes how deliberately changing our vocabulary forces us to deepen our cultural understanding.
Tag: education
Praiseworthy Insights
Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck describes how a debilitating fixed mindset bias can be inadvertently reinforced by praising someone in the wrong way.
The Constant Workout
York psychologist Ellen Bialystok on how neuroplasticity directly addresses the debate of to what extent our thoughts are influenced by the language we speak.
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.
The Culture of Science
Award-winning poet & historian Jennifer Michael Hecht describes how the quest for scientific knowledge is often much less objective than many of us appreciate.
Unsustainable Values
University of Michigan Business Professor Andy Hoffman urges us to profoundly re-examine what it means to be environmentally sustainable.
Social Reconstruction
Tufts University philosopher Brian Epstein explains why many models of the social world are so frequently wrong.
Revolutionary Rumblings
From Galileo to Kepler, Newton to Einstein, the most successful natural scientists in history have all tended to buck the established wisdom of their day as they boldly led us towards profoundly deeper levels of understanding about the world around us.
Extending Experience
Extending Experience emphasizes the vital role our past experiences play in shaping our current understanding.
Testing Theories
Testing Theories investigates ten different perspectives associated with the process of gaining knowledge by testing our theories.
Encountering Assumptions
Encountering Assumptions highlights the numerous biases and assumptions that are regularly encountered during the search for knowledge.
Personal Perspectives
Personal Perspectives offers candid glimpses of the motivations, passions and frustrations of a variety of researchers at the front lines of knowledge.
Making Models
Making Models examines various aspects of how models are constructed and applied across different disciplines in the arts and sciences.
Communicating Concepts
Communicating Concepts focuses on the challenges and opportunities associated with the communication of knowledge.