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News that children in England were to switch to online schooling as part of the country’s third national lockdown in response to the Covid-19 global pandemic was met with widespread support in the British press. Doctors, public health specialists, and…

Overall, there are pros and cons to a fully online conference, for sure. In-person meetings provide forms of interaction that are difficult to duplicate online. But our main takeaway is that the virtual format worked surprisingly better than we expected,…

It is very difficult to define consciousness. Sam Harris (quoting the philosopher Thomas Nagel) says that a creature is conscious if there is “something that it is like” to be this creature. It doesn’t seem that rocks have the complexity…

For this reason, consent is important. Because whatever we do involves risks, getting vaccinated or risking getting COVID, it is preferable to consent to the particular risks for yourself, rather than have others impose them. Most people believe that restrictions…

“Hegel first lectured on aesthetics in Heidelberg. By the time he was lecturing in Berlin, he had reworked his ideas significantly,” said Illies. “This is the first time any transcript of these original lectures from Heidelberg has been found.” It…

The flexibility of human behavior Scientists came to recognize cognitive control as its own class of function that links knowledge and action partly because of observations made of patients with damage to the prefrontal cortex. Early case reports were puzzling…