When you were twelve you made a new face to put on top of your face. As far as you could tell there was nothing wrong with your face—it looked completely normal, just like everyone else’s—but for some...

Full working memories do not make for productive people or smart people. They make for anxious and stressed people.

Why must 'challenge'—nebulous, polyseminal, functionally decoupled 'challenge'—be deliberately inserted into everyone's educational formation somewhere, somehow?

How evolution and culture explain how school have been shaped over time

Transfer is a better focus

Schools and districts that have caught the bug for Direct and Explicit Instruction know that meaningful implementation requires meaningful professional learning. Registration is now open for the Ex…

Reflections on David Reich's recent interview and preprint

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The following is an overview of the last twenty years of research and writing, building on my previous 40 years in education. These ideas led to a PhD and six books, The Knowledge Gene, Memory Craft, The Memory Code, Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies, Songlines: the power and promise and Songlines for younger readers. ...

AbstractBackground. Globally, subsistence-level societies are experiencing rapid urbanization and concomitant increases in cardiometabolic diseases. Genera

Fire provided a new context for social interaction when food was brought to a central site for cooking.

Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect. I am you host, Zach Groshell. My guest today is Dr. Olivia Mullins, Founder and Executive Director of Science Delivered and lead developer of the Learning S…

"As far as we know, prior to the emergence of stories the universe contained just two levels of reality. Stories added a third."

What did Darwin really mean — and how did neo-Darwinism narrow his legacy?

Dilations, rotations, reflections, and translations.

Humans are ultrasocial, yet, theories of cognition have often been occupied with the solitary mind. Over the past decade, an increasing volume of work…

Citizen science offers people something simple but powerful: a reason to step outside, pay attention, and reconnect with the living world around them.

I was honored to give a colloquium talk at the KLI last week on the Science of an Evolutionary Transition in Humans. There's a lot to cover, so it's a dense talk.

The rock art reveals the Thylacine’s deep significance to Aboriginal peoples.

My role in its downfall

If knowledge building is the weather, then cohesion is the climate.

Two champions of knowledge-rich instruction reflect on its current momentum

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How Thomas Jefferson’s vision for knowledge shapes what we know and how we access it—and why that matters more than ever As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Ind...

The discovery of the earliest clay ornaments in Southwest Asia (15,000 years ago) made by children and adults is reported.

The Konrad Lorenz Institute provides a stimulating and creative environment for fellows, visiting scholars, students, and external faculty.

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