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Losing Kaleb

Four principles for building inclusive, motivated, and effective teams.

The social consequences of hereditarianism

Podcast: Quantifying the advertising value of cookies (with Garrett Johnson and Shunto Kobayashi)

JOIN US IN BOSTON. Our future with AI depends on what we make of it. At the Questrom School of Business, Boston University, we’re searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Marketing whose ...

Mice are motivated to seek information of no extrinsic value. Recording neural activity in orbitofrontal cortex reveals a representation of the value of information that is distinct from the value of ...

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

YouTube video by Boston University College of Arts & Sciences

No, medieval execution didn't "genetically pacify" Europe

The discovery of a protein that seemingly contradicts a fundamental law of biology raises a question: how important are those laws anyway?

Kathryn Paige Harden’s new book offers a defense of a kind of Scientific Calvinism that converges with the eugenicist ideals of the contemporary Far Right.

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