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Every proposed anti-tanking solution creates new incentives to lose, shifts the problem earlier in the season, or makes it harder for bad teams to get better leaving the league stuck between ...

Briana Fair, a mental health clinician with the San Mateo Police Department, received a dozen voicemails from the same ...

Mike Tirico and Jamal Crawford break down Cooper Flagg's "incredible" showing against the Denver Nuggets and what it means to deliver this performance on a back-to-back.

From Black Mirror to The Handmaid’s Tale, these are the most grounded speculative series that bend reality without totally ...

Dick Lucas, who is running as an Independent in California’s 51st Distrcit, counted 84 people who are homeless during his 25-minute morning jog from Santa Monica to Venice.

Learn how to slow down, challenge assumptions, and pinpoint what’s really going wrong. Corey Phelps, the dean of Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, says great problem solvers are hard to find.

For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...

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 ...

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...

What if the secret to solving the world’s most complex problems wasn’t about thinking bigger, but thinking smaller, breaking things down to their most basic truths? This is the power of first ...

What if the secret to getting ahead wasn’t about doing more, but about avoiding the wrong moves altogether? Imagine standing at the edge of a maze, not searching for the entrance but tracing your way ...