Tom Roeper

Sep 18, 2024 | ragazzo.substack.com | Elizabeth Svoboda |Tom Roeper |Max Kozlov |Chip Colwell

Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human . LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American“Increasing empathy, says Stanford University social psychologist Jamil Zaki, will take more than teaching skills such as listening actively to others.

Jun 12, 2024 | nautil.us | Tom Roeper

Often, one of a child’s first words is hi or its twin bye. A parent may feel, proudly, that sheer humanity radiates forth when a child first says, “Hi.” But saying “Hi” is also a significant mental accomplishment, since the word refers to no visible thing. What do children have to know in order to use hi, and what does their learning path tell us about their qualities of mind?

Jun 5, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Bini Adamczak |Tom Roeper |Dolly Jørgensen |Giovanni Aloi

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Capitalism exists today all over the world, and it’s called capitalism because capital rules. This isn’t the same as saying that capitalists rule, or that the capitalist class rules. In capitalism, there are certainly people who have more power than others, but there isn’t a queen who sits on a throne high above society and commands everybody. So if people no longer rule over society, who does?