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April 9, 2013
Learning from Mother Nature About Teaching Our Children: Ten Simple Truths
Scientists explored new solutions from an unusual source: Darwin's theory of evolution.Education isn’t working well in America, despite billions of dollars and everyone’s best intentions. Not too long ago, scientists explored new solutions from an unusual source: Darwin’s theory of evolution.
October 7, 2013
Working With Human Nature To Improve Business Ethics
Why our moral psychology makes it difficult to teach ethics.I give a brief overview of an evolutionary approach to moral psychology in which people are mostly concerned about appearances and reputation, rather than actually doing the right thing. I explain why this complex psychology makes it difficult to teach ethics to anyone. Yet an understanding of the origins and mechanisms of moral cognition open the way for us to do (and teach) “<a href="http://www.ethicalsystems.org/">ethical systems design</a>,” a way of working with human nature and setting up environments that lead to better ethical behavior.
February 7, 2014
Books are Maps of Nature, Screens are Maps of Nothing
Our Stone Age brains never had or needed a way to process written symbolic language.
May 2, 2014
The Future Looks Good For Citizen Science
Public participation in science, or citizen science, is finding a foothold in all branches of science.
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