Starting this month until I run out of ideas / time, check every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a new Frase del Día!

UC Berkeley psychologist Stephen Hinshaw explains the thinking behind his research that public policy for school accountability in the United States inadvertently played a key role in raising the rate of ADHD diagnoses.

This video will illustrate how integrating a complicated function can be made simpler by rewriting the function before integrating.

Nobel Laureate David Politzer (Caltech) relates how trying to mathematically quantify the difference in sound between an oboe and a clarinet is much more difficult than one might appreciate.

Princeton University physicist Paul Steinhardt reveals how scientific understanding steadily pares away incorrect possibilities.

Award-winning violinmaker and acoustical researcher Joseph Curtin describes many intriguing aspects of the age-old question of whether or not a Stradivarius violin is fundamentally different from other violins.

Marine biologist Edie Widder at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association describes how an appreciation of our ecosystems enables us to protect ourselves from the risks of environmental degradation.

Caltech physicist and Nobel Laureate David Politzer describes the inherent challenges in trying to explicitly quantify the different sounds of instruments that we somehow detect.

Renowned violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin describes the false assumptions that many had about what good musicians can hear.

Nobel Laureate David Politzer, Caltech, describes the difficulty in giving objective descriptions of why one banjo sounds different from another, and the different musical styles of individual musicians.

Neuroscientist John Duncan (Cambridge) describes some of the tests associated with Charles Spearman's mysterious "g factor."

Neuroscientist Alcino Silva (UCLA) describes his fascinating research in manipulating certain memories in laboratory mice.

Cognitive scientist Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern) describes how her quest to understand emotions led her, eventually, to the current frontiers of neuroscience.

Social psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University, describes how experimental findings that indicated that subjects couldn’t accurately distinguish between different emotions led her on a quest to find objective markers...

Anthropologist Frans de Waal, Emory University, describes how our understanding of altruism and prosocial tendencies have changed considerably over the past few years, both for humans and other primates.

UC Berkeley psychologist Stephen Hinshaw describes the ongoing longitudinal studies that have showed a statistical correlation between ADHD and a significant delay in the development of the cortex of the brain.

UC Berkeley psychologist Stephen Hinshaw describes how the practice of taking medication for ADHD and other conditions is far more subtle and complicated than most of us appreciate.

Award-winning violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin describes the importance of using double-blind tests to remove subjective biases.

Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes his research of testing what is happening in our minds when we speak.

Award-winning violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin describes the subjective element that all musicians bring to music-making.

Award-winning violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin relates the results of the fascinating double-blind tests to determine if expert musicians could tell new violins from old, and muses on how it's really hard to remove subjective...

Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson (UNC Chapel Hill) describes how a career spent investigating the importance of positive emotions has affected her personally.

Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) sketches out an intriguing future experiment he'd like to conduct to probe the difference between meaning-level and grammar-level effects.

Former Harvard and Stanford psychologist Stephen Kosslyn describes his excitement at becoming Founding Dean of Minerva Schools.