Asking questions is what brains were born to do, a... -Alison Gopnik

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

Alison Gopnik , Psychologist
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Alison Gopnik is an American psychologist and author known for her research on cognitive and language development in children. She has made significant contributions to the field of developmental psychology, shedding light on the minds of young children and challenging traditional theories of cognition.

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The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash car...
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them....
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer....
If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old....
Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in their ...
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World...
Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male and...
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention....
Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise....
The thing that is most important is having people who are involved and engaged with the kids and also are not stressed and can be involved with them. ...

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When you open any kind of food service establishment, you do all this planning, but it's not until you've opened the door and people are inside that y...
Food is really important to me....
For me no good food is illuminated without acidity....
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I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he led 3,000 people on a conga out ...
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The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life....
I love flying so much. I even like airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can't have emails go through. It's undistur...
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It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and...