On the face of it, it’s difficult to find a problem, obviously, if someone has done something wrong, they should not remain a minister. However, I don’t know if there’s any other motive behind the ...

In 2018 the U.S. Census predicted that by 2034, for the first time, those 65 and older would outnumber those 18 and younger.

Like the hard problem of consciousness, the problem of psychology can be easily stated; as we move from physics and astronomy into chemistry and geology and into biology and neuroscience, we see ...

If the problem you are solving isn’t inherently hard, that’s a huge problem in itself, for a number of reasons. The biggest problem is that you immediately lose your competitive advantage.

The busy box that is your brain is hard at work all day long—and it doesn’t quit when you’re asleep. Not only does your brain ...

The hard problem seemed logical at the time, but it became null and void when the primacy of physical matter was deposed, seen once and for all as a false assumption.

The hard problem can be contrasted with easier problems, such as the neurocognitive correlates of consciousness (e.g., we can correlate working memory with portions of the brain such as the ...

Former national coach Yeng Guiao knows what it’s like to be on the hot seat coming from a losing situation. At the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China, Guiao piloted Gilas to a winless record. But Guiao said ...

Solving hard problems changes the way you think and look at the world. Pattern recognition: Make the gears mesh. I’ll take an analogy and compareproblem solving to a system.

These problems, called NP-complete, were independently formulated and shown to exist in the early 1970s by two computer scientists, American Canadian Stephen Cook and Ukrainian American Leonid Levin.

My initial reaction was shock, but after the discussion I told myself to take a deep breath and consider the “feedback” in a ...