Time was when scientists didn’t need to track many media to know how science was being presented to the public. True science buffs read magazines like Science News or Scientific American, or watched Jacques Cousteau specials on TV. But the average person heard only about sensational discoveries and was rarely exposed to how research was done or what day-to-day science was like. Then, during the...

In theory of mind research, there is a long standing dispute about whether children come to understand the subjectivity of both desires and beliefs at the same time (around age 4), or whether there is an asymmetry such that desires are understood earlier. To address this issue, 3-year olds’ understanding of situations in which two persons have mutually incompatible desires was tested in two stu...

The Werewolf game is a conversation-based party games. Each player in the game belongs to werewolves or villagers. Since secret conversations called “Whispers” are allowed for werewolves only, effective use of whispers must be a key issue for werewolves to proceed advantageously to win the game. In this work-in-progress paper, for a preliminary assessment of the whispers’ effect, we extract rel...

Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a dystopian—or anti-utopian—novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Though he was already a best-selling author, Huxley achieved intern...