Several months ago a committee of the Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty recommended changes in the university’s core curriculum, the required courses outside the students’ specialization. Although the ...

The New Jersey Supreme Court was asked to address when, in a medical malpractice lawsuit, could the statutory requirement that an affidavit must be submitted within 60 days be waived. To this author, ...

In Ross v. U.S., decided last month by the D.C. Court of Appeals, defendant had left her dog Cinnamon for over an hour in a parked car on a hot day (98 F) with the windows cracked open. (There was ...

From using words to overthrowing regimes, shared awareness is necessary for people to coordinate. The cognitive scientist explains to Nature how it works. When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: ...

Source: Scribner / Used with permission. In a New Yorker cartoon about marital relations, a husband tells his wife, “Of course I care about how you imagined I thought you perceived I wanted you to ...

I don’t know about you, but ever since I can remember – from my early teens – I have been bemused about the endless rituals we humans perform; and even more so about what can and can’t be said about ...