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Are you a rigid librarian or an eccentric poet? How you see yourself may enhance your creative performance.
Deep disagreements within science might seem to undermine its authority, but they only underscore how science really works.
People shouldn’t let these tricky puzzlers reinforce their misguided notion that they stink at math.
Have you heard the one about Cheryl’s birthday? It’s the latest puzzle that’s baffling people across the world.
If machines run by artificial intelligence take over the world it’s only because we programmed them to do so. So how can fuzzy logic help us prevent that?
Some interesting recent research using neuroimaging gives us evidence that different brain systems activate in different reasoning situations. But before we get to that, try the following puzzles: Puzzle…
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