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Prepared Learning: What Are Humans Hard-Wired for at Birth?

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By Marjorie Hecht Do living beings learn and pass on to future generations some behaviors or predispositions more easily than others––and if so, how? So-called prepared learning is a question psychologists and other scientists have studied for decades, developing a series of new hypotheses about learning and experiments to test them. The concept of prepared […]

Learning From History, if We Dare

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By Gary M. Feinman The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border, a global pandemic, battles for women’s rights, even the Titanic: history does rhyme with the present. Yet as former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert once observed: “If history tells us anything, it’s that we never learn from history.” That’s something we can […]

Our Planet Versus Plastic Bags—A Tale of Two Cities

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Americans discard 100 billion plastic bags annually, the equivalent of 12 million barrels of oil.

The U.S. Finally Has an Economic Plan for a Domestic High-Tech Economy

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Matt Thomas was driving Interstate 75 through the Detroit area about two years ago when he caught his first glimpse of “dead” cars—the partially manufactured vehicles marooned on sprawling factory lots amid the shortage of microchips needed for the autos’ safety, entertainment, and GPS systems.