The Biology of Becoming
Pamela Cantor, M.D.Stories and science about how human connection shapes who we become.
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What a Learning Brain Actually Needs
The brain is an electrical structure that learns by doing.
Everything we have done to help kids learn through technology rests on a myth about how the learning brain works: that learning is about receiving information, that if we deliver t...
Does AI Ever Let You Fail?
(Photo by Matheus Bertelli)
If the biology of expertise depends on sustained struggle, on the experience of trying something you cannot yet do and failing at it and trying again, what happens when we hand that struggle to a machine?
When...
Building Our Magic Muscles
We now have substantial evidence that the brain can heal from trauma. Not just psychologically, but structurally, functionally, biologically. And what that science tells us should shift how we think about recovery, about where resilience co...
The Anthropologist and the Computer Scientist
I have spent most of my career being skeptical of technology’s role in human development. So, I did not expect to find one of the most hopeful things I have read in years inside a story about chatbots.
Then I paid attention to what a compu...
The Cell That Hasn’t Decided Yet
There is a woman in a lab at MIT whose entire career began because she couldn’t choose.
Domitilla Del Vecchio grew up in Rome, the daughter of an engineer. Her father kept a home laboratory stuffed with the colorful insides of computers, c...
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Pamela Cantor, M.D., is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and the Co-Founder and CEO of The Human Potential L.A.B.
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