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Motivation works in some complex ways. There are reward systems, giving a person something they really want after completing a task. There’s reinforcement, punishing bad behavior and buttressing good behavior. […]
Most of us will still be alive then. Maybe.
Achieving successful diversity training can be a challenge for many employers because employees may regard this type of mandatory training as unnecessary, cumbersome, tedious, or even aggravating. Many view them […]
This year’s prize represents not just a single example of brilliant work, but generations of advancements that led to it. Every year, the most prestigious prize in the most fundamental of […]
Find out the multiple ways we classify and ascertain what constitutes intelligence.
The age-old question, finally answered. Kind of.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies recently unveiled the Quintero One, a hyperloop passenger capsule that can travel at a top speed of about 760 mph.
Early reports show that it works, as odd as the approach may seem to some fontologists.
A new study finds that naps bring cognitive benefits.
Scientists at Stanford Medicine recently observed that some mice recovered from strokes better than others, leading them to wonder whether or not they could find evidence that specific genes played […]
The FIRE movement believes frugality is key to retiring in your 30s; others think the movement is about privilege more than prudence.
Researchers at Japan's Tohoku University might be clearing the way for space travel.
NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory has shown us the Universe like nothing else ever before. When it comes to the Universe, it mainly generates X-rays through high-temperature heating. X-rays from Chandra reveal […]
The history of trading equality for food.
A new study compared cognitive boosts from running versus relaxing.
What an academic sting on humanities journals really means to the rest of us. And to academia.
In more than a dozen countries as far apart as Portugal and Russia, 'Smith' is the most popular occupational surname
Man Booker prize winners Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft on maps that lead nowhere, plasticized anatomies, and humor across national borders.
Instead of eternal expansion, could we just be part of a universal cosmic cycle? There are few questions that can keep us up at night the way pondering the eventual fate […]