Several months ago a committee of the Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty recommended changes in the university’s core curriculum, the required courses outside the students’ specialization. Although the ...

We all go through life with a certain amount of knowledge. While usually these amounts are different, depending on the person's education, character, and other things, from time to time, some folks ...

I don’t know about you, but ever since I can remember – from my early teens – I have been bemused about the endless rituals we humans perform; and even more so about what can and can’t be said about ...

From using words to overthrowing regimes, shared awareness is necessary for people to coordinate. The cognitive scientist explains to Nature how it works. When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: ...

Listen, I'm not unaware that I'm entering the middle stage of my life, and things I take for granted might be outdated or whatever... but every week or two, someone posts in our neighborhood group ...

Source: Scribner / Used with permission. In a New Yorker cartoon about marital relations, a husband tells his wife, “Of course I care about how you imagined I thought you perceived I wanted you to ...