Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we wouldn’t always have a calculator in our ...
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The hidden role of language in consciousness

For decades, scientists have asked whether language simply reports conscious thought or helps shape it. New insights from researchers at the University of Liège suggest the answer sits somewhere in ...
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Most employee recognition programs fail because they’re based on what leadership thinks should be motivating rather than what actually motivates the specific people on the team. Motivation isn’t ...
Most language learning apps lock progress behind monthly subscriptions, making long-term learning expensive and easy to abandon. Babbel takes a different approach by offering structured, ...
Philosophers are generally expected to display wisdom and calm in the face of existential questions. I am just not one of those philosophers. I spent 30 years racing away from these thoughts by ...
Ms. Rowan is the author of “A Silent Tsunami: Swimming Against the Tide of My Mother’s Dementia.” My mother often asked me, “Am I on a ship?” “No, Mum, you’re not,” I’d assure her. “You’re high on dry ...
Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...
A two-month-old startup from the former head of artificial intelligence at Databricks Inc. has raised a seed round of funding from investors at a valuation of $4.5 billion for its effort to build a ...
Are all diamonds valuable? How can you approach a diamond investment wisely? Before answering these challenging questions, I'd like to educate you on this mineral. Over my 10 years in the jewelry ...
AI systems learn patterns from data rather than following explicit instructions. Neural networks process information through connected layers to detect complex patterns. Modern AI chatbots like ...
In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...