Kristen French
Do We Think in Pictures, Words, or… Code?
A conversation with cognitive scientist Evelina Fedorenko about where thought and language overlap
We Attribute Personalities to Chatbots, Even When We Know Better
We can spot the bot, but we treat it like a person anyway
The Evolutionary Arc From Pigeon Brains to Machine Consciousness
A conversation with comparative cognition researcher Edward Wasserman about learning and the “edge of chaos”
The Myth of Mommy Brain
A conversation with neuroscientist Susana Carmona, author of “A Mother’s Brain,” about how the brain changes in motherhood
A Cross-Species Same-Sex Love Story
In Ethiopia, scientists documented repeated sex and bonding between a bull and a male donkey
“We Will Find a Graviton Before We Find Dark Matter”
A quantum information scientist on the hunt for the elemental mediator of gravity and why AI can’t solve physics problems creatively
The Quest for Wisdom in Turbulent Times
A conversation with three Harvard professors about the practice of wisdom in everyday living
The Teenage Girl Who Remembers Everything
A conversation with a scientist about a 16-year-old who has highly superior autobiographical memory
