How Modern Mathematics Emerged From a Lost Islamic Library
Centuries ago, a prestigious Islamic library brought Arabic numerals to the world. Though the library long since disappeared, its mathematical revolution changed our world.
BBC Future
Topics: Knowledge
How Do Children Become Members of the Populations They Are Born Into
Cristine Legare describes the development and diversity of cumulative cultural learning.
Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute
Topics: Cognition Cristine Legare Education Knowledge Learning Social Learning
How to Foster ‘Shoshin’
It’s easy for the mind to become closed to new ideas. Cultivating a beginner’s mind helps us rediscover the joy of learning.
Psyche
Topics: Awe Bias Humility Intellectual Humility Intelligence Knowledge Learning
The Importance of Knowing You Might Be Wrong
The concept of intellectual humility, and whether it could actually be key to making us smarter.
BBC Reel
Topics: Intellectual Humility Intelligence Knowledge
Epistemic Humility — Knowing Your Limits in a Pandemic
Overconfidence — and a lack of epistemic humility more broadly — can cause real harm.
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Bias Intellectual Humility Knowledge
Is Social Media Killing Intellectual Humility?
“One way the internet distorts our picture of ourselves is by feeding the human tendency to overestimate our knowledge of how the world works,” writes philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch.
Big Think
Topics: Intellectual Humility Knowledge Social Networks Tribalism
Unpacking Wonder: From Curiosity to Comprehension
Social psychologist Michelle “Lani” Shiota, writer Caspar Henderson, and astrophysicist Alex Filippenko unpack the emerging science behind the emotion of awe and wonder, and its function in our ongoing quest for understanding and knowledge.
The New York Academy of Sciences
Topics: Awe Knowledge Wonder
Science Means Not Knowing
It’s an uncomfortable feeling, but it pushes us to seek a deeper understanding of the world around us.
Scientific American
Knowledge Is Crude
Far from being a touchstone of the truth, knowledge is a stone-age concept that harms our dealings with the modern world.
Aeon
Topics: Belief Knowledge
Presenting Science to the Public in a Post-Truth Era
Grappling with the challenge of how, in this time of sweeping science denial, scientists can craft messages about their research that not only inform but also persuade.
UConn Today
Topics: Belief Bias Information Knowledge
Facts Aren’t Enough: The Psychology of False Beliefs
Sometimes, when we believe something, no amount of data can change our minds.
Hidden Brain, NPR
Topics: Belief Bias Emotion Information Knowledge Social Networks Trust
When Good Science Goes Bad
How much of science is a pursuit of truth for its own sake? And what happens when it leads to unanticipated consequences?
Sinai and Synapses
Topics: Ethics Flourishing Knowledge Reality
People With Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge
We don’t yet know if greater general knowledge and open-mindedness fosters intellectual humility, or if intellectual humility comes first, and promotes knowledge and curiosity.
British Psychological Society Research Digest
Topics: Curiosity Intellectual Humility Knowledge Learning
Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prize-Winning Physicist Says
In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility, and the irrationality of nonbelief.
Topics: Atheism Humility Knowledge Limits of Science Marcelo Gleiser Science & Religion Dialogue Spirituality
The Wisdom of Crowds Requires the Political Left and Right to Work Together
Collaborations between followers of opposing ideologies lead to less biased, higher quality Wikipedia pages.
Topics: Cooperation Creativity Knowledge
Opinion: Why Science Needs Philosophy
Philosophy can have an important and productive impact on science.
PNAS
When Does Intelligence Peak?
Maybe that’s not even the right question.
Beautiful Minds, Scientific American
Topics: Cognitive Development Intelligence Knowledge Purpose Scott Barry Kaufman Wisdom
Intellectual Humility: The Importance of Knowing You Might Be Wrong
Why it’s so hard to see our own ignorance, and what to do about it.
Vox
Topics: Intellectual Humility Knowledge Learning
Useless Knowledge Begets New Horizons
Fundamental discoveries don’t always have practical uses, but they have soul-saving applications.
The New York Times
Topics: Curiosity Knowledge
Infant’s Persistence
How do you find out what infants do and do not know? Kelsey Lucca, postdoctoral researcher in psychology at the University of Washington, discusses this question.
The Academic Minute, WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Topics: Cognitive Development Grit Knowledge Learning
The Selfish Dataome
Does the data we produce serve us, or vice versa?
Nautilus
Topics: Information Intelligence Knowledge
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