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The Hidden Forces Shaping Your Choices
Every day, we make countless choices—but are these decisions guided by desire or design? This hour, TED speakers on what shapes the food we eat, how we power our homes, and how we communicate. Guests
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Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Talk Parenting
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff discuss the new version of their bestselling parenting book, “Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn – and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize
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Teaching Metacognition in Humans Versus Artificial Intelligence
Teaching: Use this lesson plan to demonstrate to students that confidence is not equivalent to accuracy.
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Brain-computer Interfaces
They’re especially useful for communicating with people who’ve lost the ability to speak or move their body. At the extreme, one brain-computer interface prototype can decipher imagined sentences, and comes with password protection to avoid
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Is It Healthy to Grieve Before a Loss?
… That honesty may help your overall healing process, added Mary-Frances O’Connor, a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona who studies grief and is the author of “The Grieving Body.” Research on late-stage cancer
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Beyond Words: Why TalkBank is Crucial for Spoken Language Research
Podcast: Most linguistic datasets focus on written text, but what about the way we actually speak? TalkBank, the world’s largest open-access repository of spoken language, is helping researchers understand everything from child development to dementia, bilingualism, and even classroom learning.
