A boy and a dog sit in the shade near a lake in MacArthur Park. (Photo by USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images) Air conditioning is a comfort that many people take for granted when temperatures soar ...

Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...

The temperature is rising, but you probably don’t need me to tell you that. If you’re anything like me, you’re currently sweating your way through yet another Great British heatwave, something we seem ...