
On TV, Ray Kurzweil Tells Me How to Build a Brain
Ingrid Wickelgren is a freelance science journalist based in New Jersey.

On TV, Ray Kurzweil Tells Me How to Build a Brain

Social and Emotional Learning Empowers Children

How Social and Emotional Learning Could Harm Our Kids

Speaking Science: Why People Don’t Hear What You Say
A lesson in communication from Scientific American

Sandy Rips through My Street

Where Are the Gifted Minorities?

Unveiling the Real Evil Genius
Creative people are better at rationalizing small ethical lapses that can spiral out of control

How Do You Spot A Genius?

Watch The Incredible Shrinking Woman [Video]

The Education of Character: Jumping Jacks for the Mind

The Education of Character: Your Brain in a Coke Bottle [Video]

The Education of Character Stoking Memory with Stones

The Education of Character: Carefully Considering Craisins

The Education of Character: Teaching Control with a Cotton Ball

Scientists Scan Children s Brains for Answers to Mental Illness

Schools Add Workouts for Attention, Grit and Emotional Control
Scientists, politicians and celebrities are remaking schools as gyms for the brain where teachers build the mental brawn for attention, perseverance and emotional control

Minding Our Children s Minds

Educating Character and Other Lessons from Scientific American MIND

Quiz: How Nice Are You?
Answer these 10 simple questions to find out if you benefit from being highly agreeable

Star Filmmakers Found in Unlikely Spot

When Sleeping Turns Deadly and Other Strange Tales from Scientific American MIND

Why Wearing Fakes Makes Us Cheat More [Excerpt]

Why Are There No Biological Tests in Psychiatry?

The Gloom-and-Doom Disease: Should Woody Allens Have a Home in the Manual of Mental Illness?