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Analytical Thinking
Almost everything we can observe and measure follows what's known as a normal distribution, or a Bell curve. There's a profound reason why.
Ways to move forward when you're wrong and I'm right.
5mins
We’ve all tried to win an argument by bringing up statistics that support our view. But here’s why that doesn’t work, according to a neuroscientist.
Wolfgang Pauli was a brilliant, well-liked physicist and a scathing critic of balderdash.
"I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s and that experience gave me everything I needed to become a skeptic."
Survivorship bias occurs when we fail to consider how data was collected. To combat this, search for the "silent evidence."
3mins
Yes, you CAN be a “math person” — as long as you follow these learning techniques.
Dive into five philosophical schools that have faded into obscurity but still whisper through the ages.
Step 1: Don't solve the wrong problem.
5mins
There are 3 key principles that separate a good conversation from a great one — and they’ll completely change how you communicate.
The patron saint of calling BS, Harry Frankfurt, died watching his philosophy become more urgent than ever.
The idea is to study the thing itself — be it a work of literature, death, family, a car, a vaccine, or the hospital — without preconceived notions, trendy easy answers, or dogma imposed on it.
AI was the most divisive topic in a recent predictions tournament.
If you've found yourself befuddled by extraordinary scientific-sounding claims, you're not alone. But this centuries-old lesson can help.
The path of a curling stone on ice — and how it can be influenced — is a revealing metaphor for life's decisions.
Math can explain why your laces spontaneously come untied — and how to stop it.
Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.
Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?
Are people are more likely to act less emotionally and more rationally when speaking their second language?
Who — or what — really controls your mind?
The meaning of the cryptic text has eluded scholars for centuries. Their latest efforts include computational analyses seeking new insights into the medieval enigma.
"In order to seek truth," Rene Descartes once wrote, "it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things."
In "The History of Western Philosophy," Bertrand Russell made it clear whose thinking he admired — and whose thinking he didn't.
I think, therefore I am (rich).
A competency framework is a way to align individual performance with organizational goals. Read on to learn how.
Chess could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift during our lives.
Delay the instant gratification of online knowledge and first seek out the wisdom within yourself.
4mins
“If intelligence is the ability to respond to any argument, wisdom lies in knowing which parts of an argument to respond to.” Harvard debate coach Bo Seo explains how to argue better.
The multi-leveled constructions of metaphysics are the collective workings of a fantastical virtuality. Did you get that?