Learning, Teaching & Leading Today

Naturalism is the philosophical theory that treats science as our most reliable source of knowledge and scientific method as the most effective route to knowledge.

That doesn’t mean anyone should stop doing literary criticism any more than forgoing fiction. Naturalism treats both as fun, but neither as knowledge.

What naturalists really fear is not becoming dogmatic or giving up the scientific spirit. It’s the threat that the science will end up showing that much of what we cherish as meaningful in human life is illusory.

Jim Butcher honed his writing skills playing Ambermush, an online role-playing game that also helped authors like C. E. Murphy and Angela Beegle.

Climate scientists say a new edition of an influential atlas vastly overrepresents Greenland’s rate of glacial melt.

Fifty years ago, Webster’s Third provoked ire by including words like “litterbug” and “ain’t” in its pages.

When it comes to running marathons, science backs up the cliché that age doesn't matter, or at least doesn't matter very much.

Hear Dylan Wiliam describe the impact and the dangers of implementing strategies aimed at raising the self-esteem of young people without increasing their self-efficacy.