Hippocampal ripples and replay reveal how brain recombines past knowledge for flexible planning

When facing new situations or problems, humans typically rely on knowledge they acquired in the past. Specifically, ...

Most people don’t know what they don’t know, but think they do – correcting your metaknowledge can make you a better teacher and learner

Do you actually know how a bicycle or a zipper work, or what a penny or a common brand logo look like? Intellectual humility ...

‘A study showed…’ isn’t enough – scientific knowledge builds incrementally as researchers investigate and revisit questions

Your goofy but lovable cousin just told you that you should stop eating eggs because he read somewhere that a study showed they are bad for you. How much should you trust your relative on such matters ...
Psychology Today

The Problem of Knowledge

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s own ignorance. —Confucius What if we are being radically deceived? What if I am no more than a brain kept alive in a vat and fed with stimuli by a mad ...
The Conversation

Why indigenous knowledge has a place in the school science curriculum

Rather than rejecting all indigenous knowledge as witchcraft or as somehow inferior, we should explore the value in different knowledge systems. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters I posed this question to ...
Yale School of Management

Building Knowledge About Biotech at Yale SOM

Sara Ahmed ’26, a student in the MBA for Executives program, drew on her background in biotech to craft a speaker series ...