Julian Barnes opens Changing My Mind, his brisk new book about our unruly intellects, with a quote famously attributed to the economist John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my mind.” ...

The more persuasive a model is trained to be, the higher the likelihood that it'll hallucinate, researchers find.

"Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything." — George Bernard Shaw "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets ...

The United Nations, a fraternity of 193 member states dedicated to “shared solutions that benefit all of humanity,” is a significant accomplishment for international diplomacy. But from there, it is ...

When I’m teaching new poets about how to think about where a poem might be inside themselves, I often offer up the sonnet “Bright Star,” by John Keats. It begins: For those who don’t know the sonnet ...

Ever change your mind on anything or anyone? I bet you have. Do you know why I’d bet that way? Because you’re a human being, which makes you capable of all sorts of amazing things, especially the ...