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The wiring and rewiring of the brain never ends. Neural pathways are constantly being reshaped as we interact with the world ...

AI is changing the rules -- at least, that seems to be the warning behind Anthropic's latest unsettling study about the current state of AI. According to the study, which was published this month, ...

I was recently getting a much-needed haircut with a new stylist, and in our small talk, he asked me what I do for a living. I explained that I teach current and future teachers how people learn and do ...

In the Karate Kid movies from the 1980s, main character Daniel LaRusso has a karate teacher (or sensei) named Mr. Miyagi, who has him paint fences and wax cars. When LaRusso trains students in the ...

If you want to learn about how humans learn things, you’ll want to learn about juggling—better yet, you’ll want to learn to juggle. Unlike, say, walking, juggling is essentially a pure motor skill; ...