Tag: smart

  • Nation & World

    Clever crows

    A new paper, co-authored by Dakota McCoy, a graduate student working in the lab of George Putnam Professor of Biology David Haig, suggests that, after using tools, crows were more optimistic.

    6 minutes
    Crow with tool
  • Nation & World

    Muting the Mozart effect

    Though it has been embraced by everyone from advocates for arts education to parents hoping to encourage their kids to stick with piano lessons, two new studies conducted by Harvard researchers show no effect of music training on the cognitive abilities of young children.

    6 minutes