December 2011
8 posts
A New Model of Empathy: The Rat →
In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.
The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the...
GSN Races to Improve Prenatal Tests for Genetic... →
I am thrilled to be involved in GSN, a company which is developing breakthrough technology to help people have healthy babies.
Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration... →
I love creative ideas that harness what would otherwise have been waste…
