The computational theory of the mind, which has come to dominate academic and popular circles, is increasingly inadequate to explain human behavior given what we know about animals.
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More often than not it’s the one lone instrument, person, human that senses something that no one else does.
It’s graduation season and young people everywhere are listening to speeches rife with promises of new beginnings. With one baby boomer turning 67 every seven to eight seconds, many older […]
Engineers at Oxford University, UK, have created an automated driving system that is currently being tested on private roads around the university and is accurate to a few centimeters.
Life didn’t come with a guidebook! We write it as we go along, and sometimes we fudge it!
Developed by a Spanish team, it combines conventional GPS with additional sensors. The increased accuracy makes it ideal for driverless cars of the future.
A comment on my most recent blog post reminds me both why I love blogging and why comments on science blogs are such a good thing. The commenter might write […]
A conversation with Matt Arnold, Managing Director and Head of the Office of Environmental Affairs, JPMorgan Chase.
Congratulations to all the new graduates who have successfully accomplished this most impressive of endeavors.
Jules Verne used the failed project as inspiration for his last adventure novel
Old school public education reformers put citizenship, and habits of social interaction, front and center. Now we see children only as pre-collegiate, proto-capitalist participants in the global economy.
There are some familiar facts and a few surprises in David McCandless’s fascinating new graphic, a visualization of how people died during the 20th century: (For a larger copy, click here.) After finding […]
Austin is weird. The town’s tagline, “a collaborative fission of coordinated individualism,” is part hilarious and part profound. However it really is on point… the town is extra-ordinarily unique. Maybe […]
These cars are infamously quiet at low speeds, which could cause problems for pedestrians. Singing and whistling sounds aren’t allowed, though: It has to mimic the sound of a car.
One of the hits at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, the device is a flexible high-resolution tablet that feels, and in some ways acts, like a piece of paper.
We are currently in the midst of one the biggest software and hardware revolutions we’ve ever witnessed. With processing power, storage, and bandwidth increasing exponentially, smart phones and smart tablets […]
This week my son’s school was canceled for the day, in the usual hyperventilating overreaction to weather. At first the school proposed to open two hours late, and I was […]
Last week, Harry Beck finally got his blue plaque. The house where the designer of the iconic London Tube map spent his first years is now marked by a memorial […]
Editor’s Note: I recently read and subsequently tweeted about Submergence, the new novel by J.M. Ledgard. Then I asked one of the smartest people I know – Brian O’Neill – […]
With Easter and Passover on the minds of so many millions of Christians and Jews this weekend, so are the deeper themes of renewal, promise, and liberation that these religious […]
The 21st century requires a new kind of learner—not someone who can simply churn out answers by rote, but a student who can think expansively and solve problems resourcefully.
Today, predictive analytics’ all-encompassing scope already reaches the very heart of a functioning society. Several mounting ingredients promise to spread prediction even more pervasively: bigger data, better computers, wider familiarity, and advancing science.
On February 20, a conservative Christian group, the National Center for Law & Policy (NCLP), filed a lawsuit against the Encinitas School Board for teaching yoga in public schools. The […]
I’ve noticed a pattern when speaking to friends about creationism: I say the word, and in response receive a squinted eye and disgruntled head shake, followed by, ‘But no one […]
This brings me to an ancient Greek, the master himself, Socrates of Athens. In a segment of Gorgias that foresees decades of modern psychological research, the erudite interlocutor observes that […]
If phantom islands can be discovered as recently as 2012, maybe there are still more of them out there.
What type of ethics training do both individuals and organizations need to navigate through the ethical minefields of business in the 21st century?
Henry Molaison, known for most of his life as H.M., was a medical oddity. Surgery to cure severe epilepsy in the 1950s led to the removal of his hippocampus, which […]
In 1951, musical composer and overall art theorist John Cage (shown above) stepped into an anechoic chamber at Harvard University. Touted as the quietest place on Earth, the anechoic chamber […]
It’s been 800,000 years since the last one, and the field’s been thinning for the last 150 years, so one space agency is launching measurement satellites.