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Last week I described some recent cognitive research on the (rather unfortunate) naturalness of creationist reasoning. Another important body of work in the “cognitive science of religion” concerns how religious ideas are transmitted between generations. And the name Pascal Boyer, an anthropologist from Washington University of Saint Louis, is rightfully synonymous with this well-known research. [More]

Chances are you've seen a commercial or two for DeVry University. This massive network of 23 campuses around the nation advertises practical learning with a career-based orientation. Through DeVry University...

Noted historian and pioneering Duke University Professor John Hope Franklin died yesterday at the age of 94. The legendary educator was widely respected for chronicling the African-American experience. Franklin's friends discuss his lasting legacy.

Apparently, it's not because they want to make us tear out our hair.  Researchers at  the University of Colorado have been studying toddlers and older children, and they've decided that toddlers just don't think the way adults and older children do.Toddlers live in the present, as the parent of any ...

In the May-June 2009 issue of the prestigious Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, an international journal published by Elsevier, Prof. Dr. Imre Zs.-Nagy, of the University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center (Hungary), and founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (http://www.elsevier.

Researchers at Oregon State University have found one gene in the human body that appears to be a master regulator for skin development, in research that could help address everything from skin diseases such as eczema or psoriasis to the wrinkling of skin as people age. Inadequate or loss of expression of this gene, called CTIP2, may play a role in some skin disorders, scientists believe, and understanding the mechanisms of gene action could provide a solution to them.

(Louisiana Tech University) The Louisiana Optical Network Initiative gained another 4.77 teraflops of computing power recently with the activation of the 'Painter' supercomputer housed in the Data Replication Center at Louisiana Tech University. Painter is the fifth of six Dell Linux Clusters that comprise the LONI system, a state-of-the-art fiber optics network running throughout Louisiana, and connecting Louisiana and Mississippi research universities to one another as well as National LambdaRail and Internet2.

LIMA, Mar 26 (IPS) - At the start of the new academic year at Peruvian universities this month, women made up between 65 and 72 percent of students in first-year courses in communication and journalism departments, a phenomenon that is reflected in the growing presence of women reporters in newspapers all over the country.

ONE of Scotland's leading universities is planning radical reforms, including entrance exams so students can go straight into second year, The Scotsman can reveal.

According to Americans For Truth About Homosexuality's repost of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) press release, Wright State University has banned the Campus Bible Fellowship for not following the non-discrimination policies of the university regarding gays and lesbians. According to two people from CBF, they were denied their registration for two reasons. According to the press release: 'CBF refused to adopt university-mandated nondiscrimination language in its membership requirements that would have stripped the group of the right to require voting members to adhere to religious and behavioral standards. (Nonvoting members did not have to meet these standards.) Second, Wright State objected to the requirement in CBF's constitution that voting members 'accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior' and subscribe to the group's articles of faith.' The problem is, CBF was not denied their registration. In fact, according to a Wright State University spokeswoman, they