So I want to call your attention to a fine article by Jonathan Marks in Inside Higher Ed, the daily online newspaper of higher education. Marks writes at a level […]
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As I’ve written before, I’m a skeptical of claims, like Jonathan Gottschall’s, about the power of stories to make us better people. Adam Gopnik of The New Yorkeris skeptical too. […]
I was all set to turn in for the night, when I came across this piece about Jonathan Shainin. I was lucky enough to write two pieces that Jonathan commissioned […]
The Jewish community in Britain represents only one-half of one percent of the population, but Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks believes it need not have a commensurate voice in the “human […]
It’s called the “hipster effect,” and a study from Brandeis University mathematician Jonathan Touboul explains how it happens.
People think that unhappiness causes our minds to wander, but what if the causation goes the other way?
To overcome burnout, we need to change how we think about the relationship between dignity and work, argues Jonathan Malesic.
Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.
A five-year-old reading a picture book in her pillow fort. A college student and his friends at the midnight matinee. A ninety-year-old watching her soaps. What do they have in […]
Synchronous movement seems to help us form cohesive groups by shifting our thinking from "me" to "we."
Isolation and empathy are by no means mutually exclusive.
So why should we keep using them?
Autism is a widely misunderstood condition surrounded by falsehoods, half-truths, and cultural assumptions.
Despite being free to users, Facebook seems to have a monopoly on our speech, our data, and our lives.
Technology that enables telemedicine is set to change the medical field for patients, doctors, and investors.
Americans say we value free speech, but recent surveys suggest we love the ideal more than practice, a division that will harm more than it protects.
As enjoyable as it is to be a couch potato, humans were built to run.
As more intellectuals seek a common ground between the left-right divide, these ten books offer insights on how to navigate challenging topics.
Western conventional wisdom about animal ethics is that killing an animal is not the problem; the problem is making the animal suffer.
Because intelligence is not the same thing as rationality.
Mathematicians are working to combat partisan gerrymandering.
Chinese philosophers have suggested “You… should not think of yourself as a single, unified being.” The Path, a book by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh, can explain (with help from Plato, Kant, Eden, Hume, Confucius, Kahnenman...).
What secrets did Shakespeare take to his grave 400 years ago? Are the plays the thing to unlock the mysteries of literature’s king?
Why Banksy's dystopian vision of the future might be the kind of shock we need to realize the problems humanity faces.
College campuses have become a breeding ground of intolerance and shame — vigilant liberalism is destroying free speech.
With the May 1st grand opening to the public of its new building in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, the Whitney Museum launches a new era not only in the New York City art scene, but also, possibly, in the very world of museums. Thanks to a Renzo Piano-designed new building built, as Whitney Director Adam D. Weinberg put it, “from the inside out” to serve the interests of the art and the patrons first, the new Whitney and its classic collection of American art stretching back to 1900 has drawn excited raves and exasperated rants from critics. Their inaugural exhibition, America Is Hard to See, gathers together long-loved classic works with rarely seen newcomers to create a paradox of old and new to mirror the many paradoxes of the American history the art embodies and critiques by turns. This shock of the new (and old) is the must-see art event of the year.
Dr. Christian Jarrett points out that neuroscience is helping us understand how negative feedback is essential to helping others improve.
Human beings have long been engaged in dramatic struggles. We want to honor our better angels, yet our demons wait on the corner, smirking. They know we’ll crack. Evolution has […]
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about both the means and consequences of demonization. And like most Americans of my generation I generally think it’s a terrible thing. To […]
We imagine our view of the world like a painting from the Realism movement – rife with detail and comprehensible – but the contents of our conscious mind are more […]