Rats’ awareness of what they don’t know
Metacognition in the rat: Apparently human beings are not, after all, the only creatures who think about thinking.
Metacognition in the rat: Apparently human beings are not, after all, the only creatures who think about thinking.
“It’s not enough to knock over a few of our buildings and blow stuff up? Now [al-Zawahri’s gotta] get all personal on my president-elect?”
Nabokov’s final literary striptease: In a BBC interview, the author’s son is suddenly certain Nabokov wanted The Original of Laura preserved.
A few weeks ago, I arrived, breathless, to meet Terry for a quick brunch at Rice before a (disappointing) matinee performance of The Black Watch. For once I wasn’t winded due to lateness. I’d just finished reading Theodora Keogh’s (at right) marvelous My Name is Rose* on the train, and I was ready to wax rhapsodic. The novel is . . .
A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to the Google copyright settlement. Publishers would receive $125 million.