However, I’ve observed that we don’t always learn from historical events, be they in geopolitics, our personal lives or our professional experiences. In my view, that’s to our detriment because, as ...

History, the study of documented events and change over time, is at its foundation the study of people—singularly and collectively, with their shared and conflicting natures, choices, attitudes and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. Mar 01, 2025, 09:37am EST Students, teachers and technologies ...

As Halloween approaches, many of us have witches, ghosts, and goblins on our minds. Scary movies are running back-to-back on television stations, and storefronts are plastered with posters of ...

Every November, someone contacts me to present about Native Americans for Native American Heritage Month. In such presentations, I provide background about the month and why it matters. But I also ...

Social emotional learning approaches can help set the norm for a new age in education that builds on how children really learn, rather than working against it. After a year of struggling with distance ...

Given the grinding wars and toxic political divisions that dominate the news, it might come as a surprise to hear that there are also a multitude of sustainably peaceful societies thriving across the ...

Sometimes we remember things that we did not even know we had memorised and sometimes the opposite happens – we want to remember something that we know we’ve learned but are not able to recall it.

Can a skeleton be a storyteller? When it comes to dinosaur bones, the answer is yes — if you know how to listen! Prehistoric fossils are a wealth of critical scientific information. Everything from ...

Whoever said that we learn from our mistakes made a mistake. Albert Einstein said it, Winston Churchill said it, and they got it wrong. It turns out that we are better at learning after doing ...