#Stanford

If we care to cast an eye over the history of ubiquitous personal computing as we know it today, we might immediately point at the original IBM PC. After all, for most of us our machines share back…

AI may be deepening our crisis of connection, says Stanford research psychologist Jamil Zaki. Managing change with empathy helps leaders build trust, strengthen relationships, and get the most out of their AI investments.

Two of the most famous experiments in psychology, the Stanford prison experiment and Stanley Milgram's obedience studies, have been called a sham, a lie and a fraud.

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In a ten-week Stanford trial that lowered nineteen inflammatory proteins, why is a jar of kimchi not a capsule of the same bacteria, and… Continue reading on ILLUMINATION »

Stanford scientists have developed a revolutionary microscope that reveals the hidden inner workings of living cells in real time, without the fluorescent labels that can interfere with observations.…

The controversial study was supposed to last two weeks, but researchers stopped it after six days.

The performance will celebrate the 20th anniversary of E-40's seminal album, 'My Ghetto Report Card.'

A new room-temperature quantum device uses twisted light to entangle photons and electrons, overcoming one of the biggest hurdles in quantum technology.…

Scientists at Stanford may have uncovered a hidden reason our brains decline with age. Studying the ultra-short-lived turquoise killifish, researchers discovered that the cellular machinery responsible for building proteins begins to jam and malfunction…

[Revised entry by Jessica Begon, Daniel Putnam, David Wasserman, Jeffrey Blustein, and Adrienne Asch on May 29, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Among the topics in philosophy and disability, the relationship between disability and…

[New Entry by Chris Bobonich and Katherine Meadows on May 15, 2026.] [Editor's Note: The following entry replaces and is partially based on the former entry titled Plato on utopia.] The texts of all great philosophers give rise to interpretative…

What would it mean to say that a petitionary prayer to God had been answered? Petitionary prayers often make many differences to those who offer them, whether positive or negative (see Phillips 1981 and Brümmer 2008), but the more philosophically…

The Madhyamaka central commitment to universal emptiness denies that anything possesses an intrinsic nature. According to Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka, whatever has an intrinsic nature both (i) exists and (ii) is the kind of thing that it is independently of…

[Revised entry by David Bourget and Angela Mendelovici on May 19, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Phenomenal intentionality is a kind of intentionality, or aboutness, that is grounded in phenomenal consciousness, the subjective, experiential…

1) Insofar as perfect wisdom implies not only purity of moral intentions but also the maximum adjustment of conduct to the diversity of circumstances, it is an ideal that no one can claim to have attained.…

Science provides us with representations of atoms, elementary particles, polymers, populations, pandemics, economies, rational decisions, aeroplanes, earthquakes, forest fires, irrigation systems, and the world’s climate.…