By explicitly modeling each step of a problem and gradually fading away supports, teachers can give students a clear path to mastering new content.

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...

In the 2020s, the best players in the NBA have mostly been European. As the likes of LeBron James and Stephen Curry entered the twilight of their careers, Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and Luka ...

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the next without pause. Albert Einstein does not quite fit that picture. For all ...

At a birthday party for Elon Musk in northern California wine country, late at night after cocktails, he and longtime friend Larry Page fell into an argument about the safety of artificial ...

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In the world of fat activism, the “O-words”—overweight and obesity—are expressly verboten. That’s because advocates and “fat studies” scholars want to destigmatize and accommodate fatness—their ...

Health plans have been pouring resources into data analytics for years. They’ve mapped chronic disease trends, pored over prescription data, and chased cost-savings across every corner of the ...

Keep going. If you stack as many blocks as you can, what is the farthest overhang you can achieve before the entire structure topples? Is it possible for the tower to extend a full block length beyond ...

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Let’s not sugarcoat this: the national debt is out of control. We all know it, but nobody wants to budget on how to really fix it. We’re staring down the barrel of almost $37 trillion dollars in debt ...