“What is a woman?” is not supposed to be a trick question. But a truly bizarre unwillingness to answer simple variations of ...

The interviewer replied, “That would be nice, but we don’t have the money to integrate it right now.” ...

"Boomerasking" is a conversational trick where questions are used to talk about oneself. Behavioral researchers found it's perceived as insincere, regardless of good intentions. Boomerasking is one of ...

Job seekers have to jump through a million hoops to land an opportunity in 2025—and sometimes, it all hinges on one nerve-wracking question. Indeed CEO Chris Hyams says he has a deceptively simple ...

During the pandemic, at a rural Minnesota gathering to air concerns about another impending widescale business shutdown, a MAGA supporter engaged me in conversation. We were in an Ottertail restaurant ...

In this stunning YouTube clip, a frogfish bides its time, waiting for the perfect moment to strike at an unsuspecting cardinal fish. This gives us time to observe it and wonder whether it is a frog or ...

Call it inherently governmental redux. Since the early months of 2009, Obama administration officials have been telling contractors, Congress and anyone else who will listen that agencies need to ...

My title probably sounds paradoxical, or like a trick question. And in fact trick questions—similar to Catch-22s, double binds, standoffs, conundrums, and quandaries—are all terms describing a ...