In January, the FBI announced that it is finally updating its ancient definition of rape to conform to a more thorough understanding of sexual assault. While many states have already adapted their ...

When you work in a consulting role, there’s an urge to dive into solutions the moment you’re presented with a problem. After all, that’s what you’re there for, right? Clients come to you with ...

A recent HBR article by Oguz Acar from King’s College London rejects the idea that Prompt Engineering is the hottest job of the future, declaring instead that problem formulation is a higher-order, ...

Five steps to ensure that you don’t jump to solutions by Julia Binder and Michael D. Watkins When business leaders confront complex problems, there’s a powerful impulse to dive right into “solving” ...

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted on the definition of a planet. Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria and was demoted to a dwarf planet. Things have been a bit of a mess ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now says “AGI” is not a useful term, arguing it has a vague definition and distracts from real progress. He suggests focusing on levels of capability instead of a binary state.

The SAIS Review of International Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Winter-Spring 2005), pp. 155-165 (11 pages) The current definition of piracy is completely inadequate as a tool for policymakers. The leading ...

Chances are you know someone who is trying to get pregnant but can't. Maybe that person is you. Infertility affects roughly one in eight couples in the United States, meaning one in eight women ...

Well-defined problems lead to breakthrough solutions. When developing new products, processes, or even businesses, most companies aren’t sufficiently rigorous in defining the problems they’re ...

U.S. millennials are rejecting suburbia and moving back to the city. That was a prevailing idea in 2019, when I started as the social sciences reporter at Science News. But when I began digging into a ...

Aesthetics and language in art education -- The case for aesthetics / F. E. Sparshott -- The structure of knowledge in the arts / Harry S. Broudy -- The logic of teaching in the arts / B. Othanel ...

I want my community to be honest again. There remain terms and phrases within everyday conversations that are deliberately contested. Liberal. Socialism. Critical race theory. Defund the police.