Conspiracy theories. Inability to distinguish facts from falsehoods. Widespread confusion about who and what to believe. These are some of the hallmarks of the current crisis in critical ...

Someone asked me the other day how they can best go about identifying AI-generated media. "I don’t know" was my honest answer. To be completely truthful, I’m not even sure I can. With that, I am ...

There is a Fox News headline that goes like this: "Transgender female runner who beat 14,000 women at London Marathon offers to give medal back." Read about the event elsewhere and it turns out the ...

Dear Mama Bears, I have always been a huge proponent of teaching my kids critical thinking skills. However, I keep hearing people talk about critical thinking like it’s a bad thing and I’m confused ...

With AI now mainstream in business, a critical question emerges: are we still thinking critically when AI does the heavy lifting? This isn’t just academic — it affects job fulfillment and challenges ...

In today's dynamic and intricate world, effective leadership necessitates a blend of diverse skills and attributes. Among these, critical thinking and empathy emerge as crucial. These two skills, ...

Late last year, in the days before the Slovakian parliamentary elections, two viral audio clips threatened to derail the campaign of a pro-Western, liberal party leader named Michal Šimečka. The first ...

In a series of experiments described in Science Magazine in 2011, a trio of researchers found evidence to support a sneaking suspicion bubbling up in the minds of many Google aficionados: Frequent ...

General education programs are a perennial source of consternation for faculty, administrators and students alike. The challenges, from one institution to another and from one decade to another, read ...

Sally C. Harris does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A new study on how knowledge workers engage in critical thinking found that workers with higher confidence in generative AI technology tend to employ less critical thinking to AI-generated outputs ...

Peter Ellerton is affiliated with the Rationalist Society of Australia. Read about the event elsewhere and it turns out the athlete was also beaten by thousands of people and it was a participation ...