How Should We Define “Best Picture?” Benjamin Winterhalter Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Philosophy, Society & Culture There’s no surer reminder of the gap between insider opinion and popular taste than Oscar night.
Why Do We Give Students Grades? Benjamin Winterhalter Education, Society & Culture “Grading fails to live up to its own ideals—of providing a valid, measurable, unbiased way of discerning people’s abilities.”
Ask Scholar Georgia Floridou Anything About Musical “Earworms” Benjamin Winterhalter Ask Me Anything, Psychology, Science, Science & Medicine Ever wondered why you can’t get “Gangnam Style” out of your head or why you find yourself singing along to pop songs you dislike? Hippo’s latest Ask Me Anything is your chance to put questions of music and mind in front of a recognized expert in this exciting field of study.
The Science of Psychoanalysis: An Interview with Dr. Chris Morse Benjamin Winterhalter Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Science & Medicine From the first of a series investigating Freud’s legacy: “A lot of psychoanalysis is about imagining. And the implications of imagination, what happens as people imagine things? Real things happen as a result of people imagining things. Real things happen as a result of people dreaming things. And even more fundamentally, dreams and imaginings and fantasies and inner experiences are a real part of the world.”