Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

Solution to Feynman’s reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to “silly sprinklers”

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler ...
Inc

How to Learn Anything in 4 Simple Steps (From the Guy Who Interviewed 700 of the World’s Leading Experts)

Ryan Hawk loves to learn new things. After the Ohio native graduated and left a premiere division one college football program, he spent two years playing professional football, spent over a decade ...
Men's Health

The 6 Best Beard Trimmers for Men in 2026, Tested by Grooming Editors

I’m one of those weird dudes who had a full beard by the time I left middle school, so I’ve been guinea pigging beard trimmers since before I was doing trigonometry—which, to be fair, extends to this ...
Singularity Hub

AI Is Advancing Faster Than Our Ability to Understand It, Researchers Warn

While we still can't explain how AI works, algorithms are rapidly learning what makes us tick. And the gap is widening. AI is becoming more powerful, and mysterious. Despite years of work on ...
Inc

Want to Learn Faster and Retain More? Neuroscience Reveals a Simple Way to Light Up Your Brain’s Memory Center

For a study published in Neuron, researchers asked participants to rate their interest in a variety of trivia questions, and then displayed photos of unrelated faces while they waited for the answer ...
Digital Trends

Coursera wants users to learn through shorter, faster content

Online learning platform Coursera is taking a page straight out of TikTok’s playbook. The company has launched a new AI-powered feed designed to serve short-form educational content in a scrollable, ...
Medical Xpress

The bigger the reward, the faster we learn, researchers find

Scientists long assumed that learning speed depends primarily on our experience—how many times we try and succeed—not the size of the reward. We become better at poker because we keep playing and ...
Los Angeles Times

Fast-track ‘alumni’ boom: How short courses at Harvard and Stanford became big business

Achieving alumni status at an institution like the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School or Stanford used to mean years spent on campus and an outlay of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, ...
The Atlantic

Too Much Is Happening Too Fast

You hear wild stuff all the time now. Like this story that Nat Friedman, a former CEO of GitHub, told recently at a conference. Friedman uses OpenClaw, an autonomous AI agent that runs on his computer ...
The New Yorker

How “The Fast and the Furious” Tells the Story of Hollywood

When “The Fast and the Furious” premièred, on June 18, 2001, few expected it to be particularly successful. The formula was alluring but dumb: a young, hot cop goes undercover in the world of illegal ...
Fast Company

Here’s how to learn from failure—without being consumed by it

The missed promotion. The botched presentation. The project that went sideways despite our best efforts. We’ve all been there, stuck in what I call failure’s funk: that heavy mix of shame, fear, and ...