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Critical Thinking
The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.
Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.
Million Stories
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
The best-laid plans of mice and everyone else.
Computerized, job-focused learning undercuts the true value of higher education. Liberal arts should be our model for the future.
Find it easier to sort out your friends' problems than your own? This paradox is for you.
5mins
How to defeat debaters who deal in distractions, according to a two-time world debate champion.
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Is it better to be rational or optimistic? Steven Pinker explains.
From honing the art of perception to checking cognitive biases, here are a few techniques employees can learn in critical thinking training.
People naturally judge fact from fiction in offline social settings, so why is it so hard online?
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
You don't have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, "prebunking" can fight fake news.
Your very own "Conspiracy Detection Kit."
The acceptance of fashionable nonsense is a threat to Enlightenment values and public health.
Negative feedback ignites the primal (“fight or flight”) and emotional (“do they hate me?”) parts of our brain first.
Which studies are actually worth the hype?
The "attention economy" corrupts science.
We could even benefit from more whataboutisms — if they're used properly.
When you don’t know what you’re looking for, it’s easier to miss it.
Summit Public Schools take a radically different approach to education. And it's working.
Stand Together
Why, exactly, don't you trust that person's opinion?
Even the dictionary doesn't get the definition right.
Is it deliberate fraud or just bad research?
Humans tend to hunker down in our own minds and trust what we already believe to be true. This emotion-based way of thought isn't often the best way to think about anything, and often leads to gridlock.
John Templeton Foundation
Understanding Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning can help you become a catalyst of change.