The first, pilot episode of a podcast

Rag’n’Bone Man “Human” cover & mini-analysis

This blog hasn’t been updated for a long time. Its future is still in question, because my focus is now on other, more pressing matters of science, teaching and writing. There possibly will be a new, changed version of this blog. The news will follow. By the way, any ideas on what this blog should become are welcome via comments or email in About page.

This is just something that was going on while nothing was published here. I’d be glad to get some feedback on this video or have recommendations on next videos (which are to come soon).

Conflict of teacher-student interests

Last month I became a witness (well, and a participant) of an extreme version of how careless and indifferent teachers can be and want to describe one controversial issue.

Dark side of studying at Oxford

Many of us, I’m sure, have an image of Oxford Unifersity as some kind of castle of knowledge and achievement with everyone learning something within a radius of 100 miles near it. So did I

Are we teaching young children right things

More and more attention to child education is paid after Captain Fantastic has embodied an extreme version of homeschooling.

Choose your words before you speak

If you watched as much TED talks as I did, you have probably noticed one particular thing about the topics concerning languages.

How intelligence level depends on your sense of humour

Just came across a number of articles on humor and wit and how they show if the person is smart.

How we develop theory of mind

Here I will share some recommendations based on theory of mind science.

Theory of mind

For those who are not familiar with this concept, here is something that may hurt your brain a little bit – it is not a theory.

Language for cooperation, or how to trade a bunch of arrowheads if you are Neanderthal

In his TED talk evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel discusses how language has changed humanity as a whole and articulates several surprising ideas.