Tag: MBB

  • Nation & World

    Newsmakers

    FAS CONFERS 17 MIND, BRAIN, AND BEHAVIOR CERTIFICATES; ‘REMEMBERING AWATOVI’ WINS INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER AWARD

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Steven Pinker’s ‘Ideas on the Fringe’

    Not long ago, Steven Pinker appeared on “The Colbert Report.” He managed to explain the functioning of the human brain to Stephen Colbert in only five words: “Brain cells fire in patterns.”

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    In search of grammatical architecture behind words

    When not in a classroom or laboratory, Maria Polinsky spends time doing fieldwork off the southeast coast of Africa, in Madagascar. She studies Malagasy, a melting-pot language whose influences start in Borneo and now borrow from Swahili, Arabic, and French.

    5 minutes