🤝 Collaboration

• 🎵Call and Response

  How music's rhythmic bonds shape social behaviors and foster connections, from toddlers to adults.

• 🤝The Evolution of Cooperation

  Explaining the evolution of cooperation — one of life’s most common, complex, and paradoxical phenomena

• 🔭Extending Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative

  New funding for groundbreaking collaboration to continue investigating some of the biggest questions in physics and cosmology

• ❤️A Scientific Approach to Living in Love

  Kindling new connections in the study of friendship, romance, and affection

• 🤝Need-based transfers and the origins of human cooperation

  Giving without expecting repayment is not only more common than previously thought, it may also be more crucial for cultures to survive and flourish

• 🎓Enhancing Student Purpose with the Middle School Ambassador Program

  When testing is not enough…helping students define their purpose

• 📈The not-great, the good, and the awesome

  Sometimes humility can lead to underestimating potential.

• 🤔Peopling Pixar

  Exploring Pixar's hiring philosophy, where curiosity trumps charisma.

• 🌎Med students, majority culture, and alternative medicine

  Exploring the contrasting views of non-white medical students on alternative medicine reveals deeper cultural dynamics at play.

• 📺The Station Nigeria

  This popular Nigerian soap opera, funded by Search for Common Ground, tackles significant societal issues facing Nigeria today. The captivating narrative unfolds in a fictional television news station, offering insights into the challenges of a diverse population.

• 🎨Cezanne’s dream team

  Malcolm Gladwell explores the concept of late bloomers and the vital support systems behind their success in his article. "But for Zola, Cézanne would have remained an unhappy banker’s son in Provence; but for Pissarro, he would never have learned how to paint..."

• 🎭Give me a telenovela and I’ll give you a nation

  An exploration of how telenovelas serve as both cultural mirrors and therapeutic narratives for countries, highlighting their unique emotional resonance and production values.

• 🏈From Polynesia with love

  As a rugby fan, I find it intriguing to see American football teams embracing the Polynesian haka and fostering multicultural connections.

• 👫The old 7–13–50–90–150

  Exploring the dynamics of group sizes and their implications for community structure and survival.

• 🎶Didgeridon’t

  A cultural clash arises when a book for girls includes instructions on playing the didgeridoo, mistaking its sacred significance in Aboriginal traditions.

• 🌐Doing science in the open

  Barry Canton advocates for transparency in science by sharing his research openly online, challenging traditional academic norms.