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Today we’re obsessed with data. Experts in every industry are finding ingenious ways to measure and depict millions of data points every day. But data is virtually worthless unless someone can look at ...

While we’ve become increasingly reliant on metrics for design decisions, there is something more powerful in human creativity: the art of mental stargazing and the hidden currents of our intuition.

Categorization is the brain's tool to organize nearly everything we encounter in our daily lives. Grouping information into categories simplifies our complex world and helps us to react quickly and ...

Asking “why” and conjuring up possible answers is an important thinking process. It gives rise to some of the most beautiful states of mind, such as curiosity and imagination. These psychological ...

Picture this: a noisy middle-school classroom in which a teacher has just given the instruction, “Everybody hop up and change seats with your neighbor.” Most of the students stand, move to another ...