W. Jason Morgan, who in 1967 developed the theory of plate tectonics -- a framework that revolutionized the study of earthquakes, volcanoes and the slow, steady shift of the continents across the ...
The documentary “Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard,” about the French thinker who developed the “mimetic desire” theory of conflict, will be screened at Hope College on Wednesday, Nov.
His framework offered a new way to think about continental drift and revolutionized the study of earthquakes, volcanoes and evolution. By Clay Risen W. Jason Morgan, who in 1967 developed the theory ...
In geopolitical terms, catastrophe theory explains the breaks in world order—the sudden realignments that redefine history. Chaos theory, by contrast, explains the turbulence that precedes and follows ...
Some researchers claim that chatbots have developed theory of mind. But is that just our own theory of mind gone wild? By Oliver Whang Mind reading is common among us humans. Not in the ways that ...
In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...
Recently, I was listening to a group of prisoners as part of a research project. When I saw all these men in good health, with sharp minds, using the prison’s law library to successfully win legal ...