When you touch a hot stove, your hand reflexively pulls away; if you miss a rung on a ladder, you instinctively catch yourself. Both motions take a fraction of a second and require no forethought. Now ...

Over the past few months, we at ProfHacker have written articles about class/course assessment and how important it is to get students’ input in class evaluations. Certainly, course evaluations ...

From time to time, most of us experience bouts of laughter that just seem to explode from within. We sometimes describe these episodes as having "busted out laughing." These instances lead many to ...

Birds possess key neural and behavioral markers suggesting consciousness is more widespread in animals than previously ...

In Salomon 101 last night, Professor of Community Health Stephen Buka '78 described his research into intervention in adolescent drug abuse and suicide. Buka's talk, entitled "Predicting and ...

Conversational agents that can chat with you, such as Alexa from Amazon, are now commonplace. Robots, too, can have conversational abilities — for example, Pepper by Softbank and Jibo by Jibo Inc.