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Coronavirus has given us the opportunity to reframe and rethink society from its foundation.

A new study at UPenn found that effective learning includes mistakes—just not too many.

A critical thinking framework developed by psychologists can help teach mental skills necessary for our times.

It may be easiest when you’re young, but the proven benefits of learning a new language at any age cannot be ignored.

Now is the perfect time to take up a new language. Self-motivation and commitment are key to mastering this fun and useful new skill.

Do space and time really exist? NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller looks at the implications of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2.

Dr. Kate Biberdorf explains why boiling water makes it safer and how water molecules are unusual and cool.

Rather than trekking up a mountain, a more accurate metaphor for human development involves navigating the waters of a choppy sea.

All that matters is the here and now.

Here’s how corporations can bring women out from the “leadership pipeline” and into actual leadership.

Our live stream with Harvard literature professor Lisa New begins at 1 pm ET today.

There’s a reason it’s called “timeless wisdom.”

When everyone knows and plays their role, it helps the team operate at a higher level.

Research shows how “aha moments” affect the brain and cause the evolution of creativity.

Famously, it took Edison over one thousand attempts to successfully create the lightbulb.

Practicing Socratic ignorance, or avoiding certainty of our own knowledge, diminishes inequality and pushes us in our search for wisdom.

Play and experimentation are the keys to creativity and innovation.

The physicist was both a gentleman and scholar.

Disagreements should not equal censorship.

“One way the internet distorts our picture of ourselves is by feeding the human tendency to overestimate our knowledge of how the world works,” writes philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch.

Striking a better work-life balance comes down to the numbers.

Beware of the “fallacy of excessive expertise.”

Childhood is an important developmental feature of being human. Helicopter parenting disrupts that.

It’s possible to seek equality without seeking sameness.

How reframing your emotions and changing your daily behavior can help you save money.

A study reveals these brains exhibit less cortical surface area and gray matter.

Ezra Klein offers good reasons to take a skeptical look at automation apocalypse theories.

Belief systems aren’t necessarily dangerous until they’re spread by someone with influence.

Your answer might depend on whom the quote is attributed to, according to the results of a recent study.