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.
Tag: education
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.
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.