A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

This caring for oneself is not to be confused with selfishness. Selfish people hold onto their stuff and don’t share it with ...

Eight years ago, I first encountered the writings of Jhumpa Lahiri. Last Monday, Lahiri visited Brown to lead an undergraduate seminar and participate in a public conversation. My experience that ...

“I think it was in the air in some ways,” says Paul Muldoon, when asked about where his love for poetry comes from. “When I was brought up in the country in the 1950s, there was still a tradition of… ...

Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has announced that it will appeal against the Karnataka High Court's judgment, which dismissed its challenge to the Union Government's recently-launched ...

Asaduddin Owaisi of the AIMIM on Friday reacted sharply to the controversy over posters with “I Love Muhammad” written on them in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur, questioning why such expressions of faith ...

Researchers at the University of Montreal in Canada have published a paper on ' visual story writing,' an approach that involves writing while controlling the visual expression of a story. The paper ...

Elon Musk's X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed of the social network's fact-checking product and expand it to reach more ...