In psychology, the term “dialectics” has to do with holding two contradictory ideas at once. The concept helps better explain the complexities of life when there’s truth in two opposing views. As New ...

It’s a familiar moment in math class—students are asked to solve a problem, and some jump in confidently while others freeze, unsure where to begin. When students don’t yet have a clear mental model ...

Chinese chairman Mao Zedong swimming in the Yangtze river in Wuhan, China, July 29, 1966. (Hou Bo / Public domain via Wikimedia Commons) Dialectical Republicanism is another face of Karl Marx’s ...

Anyone who's been around children can attest that they have certain behaviors that would be intolerable in adults. Of course, the tragedy is that some so-called adults still retain the need to ...

In May 1941, Kurt Vonnegut was an opinion columnist for The Sun. Under Well All Right, a column he shared with others, he wrote, “Sometimes it isn’t as easy as it might seem, this business of ...

Investigating NLP through a philosophical lens has recently caught researchers’ eyes, as it bridges computational methods with classical schools of philosophy. This paper introduces a philosophical ...

Ashley Velie is a Peabody Award-winning producer for 60 Minutes who has worked overseas and in the U.S. for CBS News since 1998. She has received multiple awards and nominations for stories on war, ...

The FDA is said to be making a U-turn on uniQure’s one-time gene therapy candidate for Huntington’s disease despite the treatment being hailed as a game changer. The FDA no longer agrees that data ...

Merger creates $600-million-revenue data infrastructure company Fivetran CEO Fraser to lead combined company Deal highlights AI-driven data infrastructure demand Oct 13 (Reuters) - Data startups ...

Imagine an AI system analyzing the social media history of a deployed soldier and his spouse. Within seconds, it identifies a vulnerability to jealousy and violence. At negligible cost, it generates a ...