I t has been almost 70 years since the term “artificial intelligence” was coined at a 1956 Dartmouth College summer workshop. The conference was convened by the mathematician John McCarthy, who ...

A researcher tested a new weight loss supplement. She gave it to 200 overweight adults and discovered that their average weight, as measured by a precise weight scale, declined after two months of ...

Peter Ellerton consults to the Centre for Critical and Creative Thinking. He is a Fellow of the Rationalist Society of Australia. Few people doubt the value of developing students’ thinking skills. A ...

When I was much younger, my mother would say, "Practice makes perfect." Of course, this simplified phrasing—used to motivate impressionable young minds—wasn’t entirely factual, but it still made a ...

For close to 50 years, educators and politicians from classrooms to the Oval Office have stressed the importance of graduating students who are skilled critical thinkers. Content that once had to be ...