Laura Pike Seeley

fear of crime is deeply embedded in American society, and positive news about falling crime rates won’t simply make that fear go away.

Umwelt , as I learned from Ed Yong’s book, An Immense World , is the world as it is experienced by a particular organism. How does the organism that is my dad now , not my dad of 5 or 25 or 50 years ago, experience the world? What language assigns itself, or doesn’t, to the surfer and the wave, the son and the daughter? How cold and confused and in... See more

We’re applying technology as part of a larger system to enable the rapid development of housing, and it is an incredible challenge.

No matter how much a workplace may practice radical candor or cultivate an environment of psychological safety, folks will always hold back some of their idea and thoughts.

So here is the take-home lesson. We have to seek novelty, because this is what lays down new memories in the brain.

The ability to connect and form strong social bonds is fundamental to human experience and emerged through unique structures in our brains. But ever-more-powerful technologies and ubiquitous access to media have hijacked our need to connect intimately and emotionally with others.

Even if content moderation were implemented perfectly, it would still miss a whole host of issues that are often portrayed as moderation problems but really are not. To address those non-speech issues, we need a new strategy: treat social media companies as potential polluters of the social fabric, and directly measure and mitigate the effects... See more