Secrets of Lecturing: How I Learned to Talk the Talk

What I talk about when I talk about health law.

How Your Brain Cells Talk to Each Other—Whispered Secrets and Public Announcements

Imagine that you want to tell your friends something new; you could whisper it into their ears or shout it out loud. This is rather like two forms of communication that occur within your brain. Your brain contains billions of nerve cells, called neurons, which make a very large number of connections with specialized parts of other neurons, called dendrites, to form networks. Neurons have been t...

If I could talk to the animals

The language faculty, or better the apparent lack of anything quite like human language in other animals, is one of the most prominent phenomenon that Darwin’s theory of evolution has struggled to explain. Ever since Max Müller’s arguments for the language barrier in the 1860s, there have been heated debates about how natural selection could have produced human language, despite the famous atte...

How to talk to multiple audiences

Article history: Received 11 June 2009 Available online 26 August 2010 JEL classification: C72 C78 D74 D82

How to talk to children about death.

Death is often a very difficult subject for parents to discuss with their children. It is natural for parents to want to protect their children from the pain and sadness that is associated with the topic of death. Many parents don't want to bring up such an unhappy subject with their children unless they absolutely have to. Unfortunately, a time will come when children must face the loss of a l...