As a nation, we must commit to the complex and difficult work of change. Change can start with our willingness to talk honestly with each other and to have difficult dialogues regarding race relations and the persistence of racial bias in this country.
We are a long way from knowing precisely what happened in Ferguson, two weeks ago, but one thing is clear: The town’s name has become yet another synonym for the chasm of experience dividing white and black America.
As the Gaza-Israel conflict began escalating last month, there were widely circulated reports that Israeli spectators had gathered on garden chairs and old sofas to cheer as bombs rained down on people living in Gaza just a few miles away.
Consider the following two types of Ivy League admissions programs designed to grant special access to students: Affirmative action and legacy admissions.
Public reaction to the news that the White House was in the process of setting up its own “Nudge Unit” was a mix between hopeful anticipation on the one hand and big-government alarmism on the other.
With the singular, ambitious goal of understanding exactly how the brain works, the BRAIN Initiative was announced as one of Obama’s “Grand Challenges,” meant to be on par in scale and impact with the Human Genome Project.
Over the past few years, MIT neuroscientists Xu Liu and Steve Ramirez have been bringing ideas that might only seem possible in science fiction to reality.
We looked into the science behind BeeLine Reader, which was recently awarded first prize in a Social Entrepreneurship competition at Stanford University, and another speed-reading app, Spritz, to find out more about how they work and if they work.
We possess a fundamental need to connect with one another, yet connecting with others in a meaningful way can be awkward, elusive, and challenging.
In Part 2 of our interview with Nicholas Epley, we explore his work on presence of mind–how we perceive and relate to the minds of other people and objects.
