A Critical Deficit
Flawed thinking can lead us into a lifetime of pointless arguments and bad decisions. Fixing the problem won't be easy — but we know...
George Washington, a real estate investor and successful entrepreneur, knew the difference between running...
Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire
During his three presidential campaigns, Donald Trump promised to run the federal government as though it were a business....
Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions in lost productivity and...
Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, University of Pittsburgh
Investigations into the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster revealed that key decision-makers worked on little sleep, raising concerns that fatigue...
Beyond Anthropomorphism
We need a new language to describe the reality that animals love, grieve, and fear.
September 26, 2024
By Ula Chrobak
We all anthropomorphize at times, projecting...
Concrete Poetry: Thomas Edison and the Almost-Built World
By Anthony Acciavatti
Historians often speak of “contingency”, by which they mean something like “things could have been otherwise”. But is this even true? It can...
