Discover resources for teaching logical fallacies to kids and teens, including courses, videos, podcasts, activities, and lesson plans.

How did the table fork acquire a fourth tine?  What advantage does the Phillips-head screw have over its single-grooved predecessor? Why does the paper clip look the way it does?...

Psychologist Alison Gopnik tells three stories about intelligence — a golem, a pot of stone soup, and a digital child — to explain what AI still can't do.

Podcast Episode · Fresh Air · September 2 · 46m

A crowdsourced flower-color observation quiz.

Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...

Modeling how networks change under structural perturbations can yield foundational insights into network robustness, which is critical in many real-world applications. The largest connected component ...

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

The network of AI models reveals an expanding genealogy of reuse, modification and recombination.

Stratification makes environments look like genes

The threshold interpretation of R0 can fail to describe elimination in epidemic models with imperfect vaccination and reinfection. We study an SEIRV model in which vaccinated individuals remain p...

We were wrong about the Uncanny Valley.

YouTube video by Black Hat

The US and China use the technology as an instrument of state power, while the EU is still considering its course