Pop Pieces
Born to Count (w/ Sam Clarke)
Scientific American, March 2023
We review scientific evidence for an innate number sense and locate it relative to philosophical accounts of mathematics and the mind.
French translation: Le sens des nombres est-il inné chez les bébés? Pour La Science, April 27, 2023.
German translation: Zum Zählen geboren. Gehirn & Geist, September, 2023.
Reply to Letters to the Editor. Scientific American, 329(1).
Can We Really Know What Animals Are Thinking?
The Conversation, September 5, 2019
Reflecting on the life of Sarah, a chimpanzee who served as a research subject for most of her life, I argue that our ability to understand animal thought is subject to principled limitations.
Translated into French for La Conversation: Peut-on réellement savoir à quoi pensent les animaux?
Translated into Arabic for Popular Science Arabia: هل من الممكن أن تفكّر الحيوانات كما نفكّر حقاً؟
My live radio interview about this piece on the Jill Bennett Show (starting around 17:10)
The Only Good Reason to Ban Steroids in Baseball: To Prevent an Arms Race
The Atlantic, June 17, 2013