Test your problem-solving skills with these 62 lateral thinking puzzles. They’ll challenge you to think out of the box to ...

I did not expect to begin my sixth year of teaching standing baffled before a folding table covered with tin foil, pipe cleaners, and mysterious mini-motors, but I suppose that I shouldn’t have been ...

Do you have children of school age, and currently looking for a school to enrol them? As parents, there are a multitude of factors which need to be considered when searching for a school suitable for ...

Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable ...

Concerned that high schoolers aren’t learning enough critical thinking and problem solving, the education nonprofit and assessment developer Council for Aid to Education Inc. (CAE) has updated its ...

First principles thinking is a method of problem-solving that involves breaking down complex issues into their most basic and fundamental parts. Originating from ancient Greek philosophy and ...

Generative AI tools have become hugely popular but some experts worry about the effect they have on the brain.

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Rapid prototyping processes, part of design thinking, can lead to an abundance of fresh ideas. In last week’s column, we shared how biopharmaceutical company AbbVie uses design thinking to humanize ...

In a previous post, I mentioned briefly what the Australian philosopher David Chalmers has called the hard problem of consciousness. In Chalmers’s own words: “Consciousness poses the most baffling ...