It’s time for a very short quiz. Do you learn more - 1. Taking a walk across an abandoned car park Or 2. Studying for a required calculus test? Teachers, academics and most folks will probably choose ...

Daniel Willingham is a cognitive scientist, by which I mean, he is an academic researcher who extracts information from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and ...

How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend’s house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

A.I. is fueling a “poverty of imagination.” Here’s how we can fix it. By Meher AhmadJessica Grose and Tressie McMillan Cottom Produced by Vishakha Darbha Artificial intelligence is already showing up ...

The rise of artificial intelligence is threatening the foundations of education — how we teach, how we assess and even how students learn to think. Cheating has become effortless. Attention spans are ...

Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens became an international bestseller by presenting a view of history driven by the fictions created by mankind. His later work Homo ...

However, I’ve observed that we don’t always learn from historical events, be they in geopolitics, our personal lives or our professional experiences. In my view, that’s to our detriment because, as ...