For decades, physicists have argued about Feynman’s Sprinkler Problem, the question of how a reverse sprinkler would operate.

The question goes: "A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?" Is your knee-jerk response that the ball costs 10 cents? That is a ...

Number theorists are always looking for hidden structure. And when confronted by a numerical pattern that seems unavoidable, they test its mettle, trying hard—and often failing—to devise situations in ...

The Jacobian conjecture has bedeviled math experts for nearly 90 years.

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

“Should I have kids?” is an age-old question, but the urgent context we find ourselves in today isn’t, as we climb rapidly toward 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) of warming above pre-industrial levels ...

That question, which feels ubiquitous if you're anywhere in the vicinity of the Great Golf Discourse in 2023, might seem ludicrous because the answer seems obvious: Of course, it does! In fact, the ...

AI isn’t always the answer — companies often overbuild flashy solutions when simpler fixes work better, wasting time, money and trust. Most AI project failures I have seen do not announce themselves ...

Problem bringers bring problems because it’s how they’re attitudinally wired to behave. Getting these low performers to change isn’t easy, and while coaching instead of managing when employees bring ...

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