Five simple strategies to sharpen your critical thinking
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Is the sky really blue? That might seem obvious. But sometimes things are more nuanced and...
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Thinking & Learning
5 tips to improve your critical thinking
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Every day, a sea of decisions stretches before us, and it’s impossible to make a perfect choice...
Thinking & Learning
This tool will help improve your critical thinking
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Socrates, one of the founding fathers of Western philosophical thought, was on trial. Many...
Psychology
How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed
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Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there's a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful...
Psychology
Why it’s so hard to make healthy decisions - David Asch
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Why do we make poor decisions that we know are bad for our health? In this frank, funny talk,...
Social Psychology
Where do superstitions come from?
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Are you afraid of black cats? Would you open an umbrella indoors? How do you feel about the...
Psychology
Can stereotypes ever be good?
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In 2007, researchers surveyed 180 teachers to understand if they held stereotypes about their...
Sex Education
How porn changes the way teens think about sex - Emily F. Rothman
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"The free, online, mainstream pornography that teenagers are most likely to see is a completely...
Psychology
Why we ignore obvious problems— and how to act on them - Michele Wucker
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Why do we often neglect big problems, like the financial crisis and climate change, until it's...
The Arts
What is abstract expressionism?
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If you visit a museum with a collection of modern and contemporary art, you’re likely to see...
Philosophy & Religion
Ethical dilemma: Should knowledge be free?
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In the city of Ockham, spellcasters invent incantations and publish them in scrolls that others...
Information Literacy
The key to media's hidden codes
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Colors, camera angles and logos in the media can all prompt immediate associations with emotions,...
Design, Engineering & Technology
When AI can fake reality, who can you trust? - Sam Gregory
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We're fast approaching a world where widespread, hyper-realistic deepfakes lead us to dismiss...
Mathematics
Can you solve the trickster god riddle?
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Ragnarok has been raging for far too long; many gods and heroes have fallen, and the rest can...
Social Studies
"Other": A brief history of American xenophobia
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The United States often touts itself as a "nation of immigrants," but this obscures the real...
Social Studies
History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte
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After the French Revolution erupted in 1789, Europe was thrown into chaos. Neighboring countries’...
Psychology
The pattern behind self-deception - Michael Shermer
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Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to...
Teaching & Education
How schools can nurture every student's genius - Trish Millines Dziko
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Forget home economics and standardized tests, education visionary Trish Millines Dziko has a much...