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“In our studies, people who are more intelligent don’t mind wander so often when the task is hard but can do it more when tasks are easy.”
Everything we observe beyond our Local Group is speeding away from us, omnidirectionally. If the Universe is expanding, where is the center?
In the land of the double-blind, impartiality is king.
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“How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave.”
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Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
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Innovation training encourages the kind of creativity and problem solving that can lead to breakthroughs in business.
Whether you run the clock forward or backward, most of us expect the laws of physics to be the same. A 2012 experiment showed otherwise.
A massive nuclear fusion experiment just hit a major milestone, potentially putting us a little closer to a future of limitless clean energy.
“Amid the chaos, he remembered his life being eerily calm as he knew it wasn’t if, but when they would be hacked to pieces. He just kept kicking.”
Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.
With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
It may be possible to give people the tools to withstand difficulty before it attaches to them.
Executive coach Jodi Wellman explains how to “make it to the end with no regrets.”
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Online learning has become the new normal, but it isn’t without its challenges.
From empowerment to intellectual humility, these executive leadership skills are invaluable to an organization.
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
Centuries ago, the typical British coffeehouse was more like a “school without a master” than a place to grab a quick boost of caffeine.
The results of a recent study found that genetically engineering cats could be a solution to eliminating cat allergies.
If you bring too much mass or energy together in one location, you’ll inevitably create a black hole. So why didn’t the Big Bang become one?
Understanding Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning can help you become a catalyst of change.
The first human trial of base editing delivered strong results along with some safety concerns.
A single knife is sometimes worth more than a thousand armies.