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The “Dog Soldiers” author confesses to missing the psychedelic experience of the ‘60s, which was “strange and very frightening” but also yielded some deeper truths about reality.
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As a boy, Robert Stone loved tales of “romantic adventure.” In the Navy he got to experience one himself, as a member of the Antarctic expedition “Operation Deep Freeze III.”
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A developmental psychologist explains the surprising cognitive effect of having friends near.
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The Temple professor initially believed that early puberty caused conflict between girls and their parents. Then he was “blown away” when his research showed the reverse connection: family conflict led […]
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According to the renowned developmental psychologist, the fundamental traits for success are manifest at every stage of development.
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A developmental psychologist explains the latest findings into the nature vs. nurture debate, highlighting the need to break down the false dichotomy between genes and the environment.
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For teens, a tendency toward dangerous behavior is hard-wired into the brain. A developmental psychologist explains.
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Studies almost unanimously show that unstructured, unsupervised time is a recipe for disaster for adolescents in terms of risk and reckless behavior. So what steps can be taken to curb […]
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The ‘just don’t do it’ approach to teen prevention programs, which underlies programs from DARE to Driver’s Ed, relies on the fallacious notion that adolescent behavior is based on knowledge […]
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A developmental psychologist explains the three key measures that education reform must achieve.
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A psychologist explains the latest research into education disparity.
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A psychologist explains a study into how racial associations affect expectations of guilt.
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An expert in adolescent psychology outlines the main features of bad parenting.
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Juvenile recidivism is far from inevitable, it’s just a matter of employing techniques that actually work.
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Over the last several years, teenagers have been subject to increasingly severe sentencing. A psychologist explains why this justice system reflects a major misunderstanding of the adolescent brain.
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A conversation with the Temple University psychologist.
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The chairman of One Laptop per Child has also founded MIT’s Media Lab, invested in Web startups, and written a column for Wired. Which undertaking was the hardest?
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As Rupert Murdoch dukes it out with Google, the founder of MIT’s Media Labs assesses how freely information will flow in the information age.
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How the digital age has made an “omelet” out of life and work—and why that’s exactly the way we like it.
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Twenty years after predicting the “Negroponte switch” between wired and wireless technologies, Nicholas Negroponte describes another advance that will soon seem inevitable: the convergence of “biology and silicone.”
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The physical book will disappear, says Nicholas Negroponte. Teachers who resist dispensing with them because “laptops are distracting” must change their methods.
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Citing zero truancy rates and teachers requesting late retirement, the chairman of One Laptop per Child argues that his program has succeeded all over the world—especially the Third World.
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How One Laptop per Child got started, and how its rainproof, sunproof machines with “cute little ears” were designed to appeal to kids across the globe.
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When artists break through by doing what they think will make them famous, not what they love, expressing their “real” selves becomes far harder.
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When Maria Schneider looks out at her audiences, she sees “mostly young people.” Meanwhile, jazz continues to assimilate new genres at lightning speed.
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Since composing her first dance work (“Dissolution”), Maria Schneider has created all her music while dancing around her apartment. The neighbors may stare, but the results are exhilarating.
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Creative juices dry up when artists fear their best work is behind them. As a potter once taught Maria Schneider, the solution is to “break your bowls” and move on.
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What is the relationship between composition and improvisation in jazz? Grammy Award winner Maria Schneider explains.
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