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  • Kyoto Prize: Three Laureates, Three Ways of Expanding Human Knowledge

    Kyoto Prize: Three Laureates, Three Ways of Expanding Human Knowledge

    The Kyoto Prize Symposium features three laureates whose work spans ethics, life sciences, and information technology. Across very different fields, the laureates highlight research that reshapes how we understand human behavior, biological development, and intelligent systems. As Dr. Kazuo Inamori, founder of the Kyoto Prize, puts it: “A human being has no higher calling than…

  • Impact of Early Life Deprivation

    Unlike most other animals, much of human brain development and maturation occurs after birth, a process that continues into early adulthood. This unusual pattern allows for greater influences of environment and culture on the emergence of the adult mind. This series of programs from the recent CARTA symposium addresses the interactive contributions of nature and…

  • We Are All Africans

    Svante Pääbo once said, “We are all Africans, either living in Africa or in recent exile from Africa.” It is now abundantly clear that Africa was the “cradle of humanity,” with multiple waves of hominins arising on that continent and spreading across the old world, eventually being effectively displaced by our own species, which also…

  • Informacy is the New Literacy

    As anyone who uses a computer, tablet, smart phone, or VR (virtual reality) device knows, we live in an Information Age unprecedented in human history, in which the sum total of mankind’s knowledge is available with a finger’s touch or click of a mouse – or a question posed to Alexa, Siri, Cortana, et al.…