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A jury in California agreed with a plaintiff who argued that Meta and Google, two social-media giants, designed their platforms to be addictive. That opens the floodgates to more litigation and ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

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This September, Joe Gebbia, Airbnb cofounder and alum of my alma mater, Rhode Island School of Design, was named Chief Design Officer of the new National Design Studio (NDS) as part of President Trump ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Abstract: In testing systems, the item response theory is a widely used model for accurately synthesizing user response information. However, compared to classical test theory approaches, it imposes a ...

Social problem-solving is a critical skill that enables individuals to effectively cope with real-life challenges. For college students, enhancing this ability is essential for successful adaptation ...