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This is what I think about the recently linked article about kids not distinguishing 'math' problems where the actual question has nothing t

Edited for clarity (hopefully) with thanks to Squirrell_in_Hell. Lately, I find myself more and more interested in how the concept of "sy

Tl;dr Different people will probably have different answers to the question of how to find the goal & nurture the 'something to protect' fee

Related to: 37 ways that words can be wrong. Consider the following sentence (from Internet; but I have heard it before): 'Lichens consist

Edited based on the outline kindly provided by Gram_Stone, whom I thank. There is a skill of reading and thinking which I haven't learned

It would be good to have a way of telling people what they should expect from jobs - especially "intellectual" jobs - they consider taking.

Once upon a time, in a dark, cruel world – maybe a world darker and crueller than it is – there lived a woman who wanted a piece of the acti

Related to: diminishing returns, utility. I, for example, really don't care that much about trillions of dollars being won in a lottery or

Just a comment on how some people decide the money/time allocation problem when helping their charity of choice. I almost posted it to the o

Note: there probably are tons of studies more and less 'solid' than these. Heck, there are probably reviews, too, although I'm not sure how