What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Importance of Being Educable’ by Leslie Valiant

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Updated 04 June 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Importance of Being Educable’ by Leslie Valiant

We are at a crossroads in history. If we hope to share our planet successfully with one another and the AI systems we are creating, we must reflect on who we are, how we got here, and where we are heading.

“The Importance of Being Educable” puts forward a provocative new exploration of the extraordinary facility of humans to absorb and apply knowledge.

The remarkable “educability” of the human brain can be understood as an information processing ability.


What We Are Reading Today: Renaissance

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Updated 28 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: Renaissance

  • Designed by Adjaye Associates in association with Cooper Robertson, the new facility positions the museum at the heart of both campus and civic life as a center for the public humanities

Author: James Christen Steward

“Renaissance: A New Museum for Princeton” reflects on the history of the Princeton University Art Museum as one of the oldest collecting institutions in North America and the role of its architecture in campus making. 

The 2025 opening of its new building affirms the museum’s long-standing commitment to considering works of art in the original as essential tools for understanding the wider world. 

Designed by Adjaye Associates in association with Cooper Robertson, the new facility positions the museum at the heart of both campus and civic life as a center for the public humanities.