Everyone can easily recognize to what extent knowledge, information, and knowledge in general are a pledge of autonomy and their absence an open door to dependence and submission in all its forms.

Growing up in the Dominican Republic, I rarely heard about climate change. I vaguely knew some information about the impact our world was suffering by the increased number of natural disasters around ...

In 1961, renowned German novelist Günter Grass openly criticized communist East Germany for building the Berlin Wall ostensibly to prevent West Germans from infiltrating the country. In reality, the ...

The American Constitution and other basic laws have enshrined the inalienable rights of people for over two hundred years, but we have not yet achieved these ideals. We still lack the collective ...

Whether it's avoiding the news or checking a bank account, adults often deal with uncertainty by switching off and not seeking knowledge – even when that knowledge could be of benefit to us. Now ...

Half empty or half full? The human brain is magnificent and powerful, but it can’t know everything. Guy P. Harrison Don’t let ignorance about ignorance be a problem for you. Too often, we view ...

Our behavior seems to be built by evolution, and it's sometimes paradoxical. To borrow from the hard sciences, our behavior exhibits complementarity. We are largely felicitous to our family and ...

It's a whiff that we've all been able to smell over the past few years as we observe the media, social networks and even geopolitics. We may have a network of knowledge, but the fact remains that ...