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Big Data Has Left the Station
President’s Note: A big difference in the academy today compared with the academy we knew 25 years ago is the emergence of interdisciplinary approaches to research and scholarship. While there are a number of reasons
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Music and the Science of Learning
Are musicians born or made? Musical aptitude seems heritable, yet no gene has been specifically and uniquely tied to music.
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Benevolent billionaires – why do they do it?
The Sydney Morning Herald: They have been hailed as the billion-dollar givers by Forbes in a new list of the world’s most benevolent billionaires, but what inspires super-rich people to give most of their money
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Our Genes Want Us to Be Altruists
“Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. Let’s do it. Let’s…” Be altruists? While it may not be what Cole Porter had in mind, animals from bees to rats to chimpanzees
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Inside the Minds of the Perfectionists
The Wall Street Journal: Christine Tsien Silvers says perfectionism runs in her family. Her mother, a detail-oriented computer scientist, emigrated from China to Minnesota and was “always taking classes to get a better job.” She
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Social Rejection Could Affect Body’s Immune System, Study Suggests
The Huffington Post: We all know that rejection seriously hurts — and now a new study shows how it could actually be bad for our health. Scientists from the University of British Columbia, Brandeis University
