Over the past decade, LLMs have become the most accurate tools we have for predicting how the human brain responds to language. Feed an LLM the same story a person hears in an fMRI scanner, and the ...

Abstract: Experiment is one of the necessary conditions for scientific progress. For cognitive science, neuroscience, biomedical science and other human-related disciplines, experiments involving ...

The leaders of the big three artificial-intelligence (AI) labs promise great things, and soon. Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, thinks next year computers will be capable of “novel insights”. Dario ...

Learner Engages in Scientifically Oriented Questions Learner Gives Priority to Evidence in Responding to Questions Learner Formulates Explanations from Evidence Learner Connects Explanations to ...

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals in the deep scaffolding of the world: the nature of space, time, causation and existence, the foundations of reality itself. It’s generally ...

After studying hundreds of teachers from around the world who were using project-based learning (PBL) in their classrooms, Zachary Herrmann, executive director of the Center for Professional Learning ...

When my Harvard colleague Stephen Greenblatt saw my book Extraterrestrial featured on the cover of the Orthodox Jewish magazine Ami, he commented “It is interesting that the Orthodox evidently do not ...

The general theory of relativity is sound science; ‘theories’ of psychoanalysis, as well as Marxist accounts of the unfolding of historical events, are pseudoscience. This was the conclusion reached a ...

There was a scientific study that showed vaccines cause autism.” “Actually, the researcher in that study lost his medical license, and overwhelming research since then has shown no link between ...

If a theory doesn’t make a testable prediction, it isn’t science. It’s a basic axiom of the scientific method, dubbed “falsifiability” by the 20th century philosopher of science Karl Popper. General ...