The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

I'm culturally Jewish but, like most scientists, an atheist: I don't believe there's a God or supernatural world. Buddhism offers guidance on what to do in a world without God: It opines that truly being present in the world‚ experiencing and hanging out with your loved ones, provides all the significance you could want.

Owning our past allows us to own our future.