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  • 24 May 2025
    Todd L. Pittinsky

    Rudeness Without Reckoning?

    I’ve got a confession: I sometimes act rather rudely to my AI. Maybe you do too? Ever fired off a curt command to ChatGPT? Directed LLaMA with less than grace? Demanded Bard to do something over? Groaned when Grok garbled your guidance for a third time? Just a year ago, I knew little about “LLMs” […]

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  • 7 May 2025
    Christopher J. Kazanjian

    Leading the way for Generation Alpha

    The incessant rate at which the world is changing is causing greater levels stress, especially for youth. Shared global challenges such as climate change, threats of disease, political unrest, the rise of artificial intelligence, or extinctions of animal and plant species, are just some examples of the uncertainties and concerns that are now part of childhood and young adulthood.

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  • 21 Apr 2025
    Paul van Geert

    A complex systems view on the visual arts

    It is Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 10:42 am. Artist A. is mixing magenta and cobalt blue oil paint – produced by the famous Blockx manufacturers of artist materials – with a few drops of alkyd medium, using a #4 Filbert brush, then applying it in broad strokes to a finely woven canvas, picking up some […]

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  • 19 Mar 2025
    Stephen Henry Fox

    Culture, healthcare, and mortality meet

    This blog celebrates publication of Facing death across cultures, a book four years in the making, begun as the pandemic first erupted. Inspiration for the book germinated two decades ago, when I was composing music for a documentary about Mitsuo Aoki, who founded the Department of Religion at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and […]

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  • 13 Mar 2025
    Sandra Thom-Jones

    Why don’t we see more autistic people in academia?

    When I was a little girl, bullied by my peers and misunderstood by my teachers, I couldn’t wait to be a grown-up. I dreamed of my future life as a professor, filling my brain with facts and my shelves with books. In my ivory tower, I would be surrounded by peers who shared my love […]

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  • 8 May 2024
    Emilie A. Caspar

    Just Following Orders: From Perpetrator Testimonies to Brain Research

    One night in 2013, I found myself watching a documentary on television about a criminal investigation. Watching such documentaries was not uncommon for me, as my studies in neuropsychology and criminology had fueled my desire to better understand human nature and its association with antisocial conduct. This particular documentary narrated the story of a kindergarten […]

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  • 29 Apr 2024
    Patrick J. Kenney, Kim L. Fridkin

    Choices in a Chaotic Campaign:  Looking Forward to the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

    We write this blog knowing the 2024 presidential election will be a rematch of the 2020 contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.  We are not fully aware, though, how changes in the political landscape from 2020 to 2024 will alter how citizens make decisions at the ballot box.  In our book, Choices in a […]

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  • 13 Feb 2024
    Gerd Gigerenzer

    The Intelligence of Intuition

    Intuition is an ultimate experience, beyond words: We know more than we can tell. This phenomenon upsets many who believe in rationality as a purely conscious activity. People often confuse intuition with a sixth sense or the arbitrary judgments of inept decision makers. But intuition is neither caprice nor irrationality; it is unconscious intelligence based […]

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