Did you know that Play Studies is a) a thing and b) a thing that very smart professors at prestigious universities teach? I'm guessing you don't have a Play Studies class at your school—physical education, maybe, but not Play Studies. Right now, you probably study just a … [Read more...]
Sheltering in Time
From December of 1986 to July of 1987, Maurizio Montalbini resided in a cave near Ancona, Italy. He lived in total solitude and in the absence of any natural light, and he broke a world record in the process. Really, though, he did it in the name of science, testing the … [Read more...]
What Is It Like to be a Hedgehog?
Can you imagine what it's like to be something other than a human being—say, a bat, or a hedgehog? Like, really imagine it? Philosophers have long debated these kinds of questions. Human brains and minds work in certain ways, and we understand the world from that point of … [Read more...]