A conversation with the attorney and founder of the Innocence Project.

Appel thinks it’s most important that children be born into families that want them. “My concern is for the potential gay child born into the bigoted family who mistreats that […]

Appel thinks the most pressing ethical issue of our time is “the arbitrary distinction that people have more or fewer rights because they were born on one side of the […]

Forcing people to make a doctor’s appointment in order to get medicine keeps some people from getting the care they need.

In objecting to all of these phenomena, people say they’re concerned about the welfare of the individuals. But they’re really just interested in imposing their own social or religious values […]

A person should have the right to end their own life, so long as they can prove that they are thinking rationally over a prolonged period of several days.

The bioethicist believes that life should be divined by cognizance, by sentience, and by the ability to interact with the world. Infants who can’t do that should have their lives […]

A conversation with the bioethicist.

“Most people don’t use C++ anywhere near as well as it could be used.”

Stroustrup shares some secrets about his work habits.

Stroustrup talks about exciting trends in technology and about how the efficiency of C++ is helping save the environment.

“Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.”

The future of programming is a language with a unified set of guidelines for how to combine different programming paradigms.

C should have been integrated as a subset of C++, says Stroustrup.

In the late 1970s, Stroustrup applied the idea of “classes” to the C programming language to create a new language that allows for high level abstraction—but is efficient and close […]

A conversation with the creator of C++.

Many of the brain’s functions are designed to initiate a response to a detected imbalance. As our bodies strive to maintain homeostasis, our brains send signals that make us do […]

Our main mode of control has to do with our degree of knowledge and our understanding of the world. As we change what we know about the world, we change […]

We have brains because they optimize our bodies’ survival. Meanwhile, the body itself is the border in the translation service that will allow the outside world to come into the […]

An emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body. Its purpose is to make life more survivable by taking care of a danger or taking […]

While our own personal histories happen one event at a time, our brains make sense of our lives by stringing these events together in an structured way.

The mind allows us to understand what the world is like, but it is consciousness that gives us the subjective vantage to say “I am here, I exist, I have […]

A conversation with the behavioral neurobiologist.

Instead of recording every event in your life, the brain records conjunctions of the occurrence of certain events. Out of the conjunction, it can then replay and reconstruct.

Parents need to wean themselves off of the idea that they must be constantly available to their child and vice versa.

Author Lenore Skenazy is tired of helicopter parents messing up their kids.

At some point in the past thirty years it became taboo to let your kids play outside without supervision. What’s with that?

Lenore Skenazy, who advocates for the free-range kids style of parenting, helps you learn to stop over-obsessing about your children.

Things have improved tremendously for LGBT youth since Testone was young, but there are still plenty of kids without supportive families who come to New York and end up homeless.

At first,Testone feared coming out to her friends would shatter the narrative she had created in high school. Looking back, she calls that fear internalized homophobia.