MIT economics professor Sendhil Mullainathan says it is in humans’ power to put artificial intelligence on a path to help us ...

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Monica Goldson, a long-time educator, is working to link learning to real-world experiences with Junior Achievement.

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Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what ...

People like things that are really hard ... but to offer some explanations for why we find both physical and cognitive effort so satisfying. Alternatively, a third theory assumes that people ...

“We certainly abhor domestic violence of any type,” Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley said Wednesday. “As it relates to ...

Your workload is not what is causing you to feel overwhelmed at work. Keep reading as one expert reveals the true culprit: your thought load.

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MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults ...