Stories are the language of leadership that can move both heads and hearts to go beyond what people thought was possible. A personal story. My phone rang at 2:00 am – rarely a good sign. Startled, I ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

In an earlier post, Is There A Language Instinct?, based on my book, The Language Myth, I observed that the philosopher and linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky, argues that Universal Grammar can be ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

The Principle of Independent Assortment describes how different genes independently separate from one another when reproductive cells develop. Independent assortment of genes and their corresponding ...

In recent years, behavioral science has been going through a replication crisis. Research results, some widely cited and some even applied to real-world problems, couldn’t be replicated when other ...

For many academics, the idea of turning research into a compelling story can feel like the last thing on a long list of priorities. Funding application – check. Ethics approval – check. Community ...