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  1. Jumping to conclusions can make for good decisions

    Gary Klein, a psychologist and chief scientist at Applied Research Associates in Fairborn, Ohio, has for the past 25 years studied how people make real-life, critical decisions under extreme time pressure. In his 2009 book Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making (MIT Press), Klein discusses 10 surprising ways effective thinkers […]

    By Gary Klein
  2. Math

    Million-dollar math prize awarded, but not necessarily accepted

    The reclusive mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture may or may not claim his prize.

    By Julie Rehmeyer

  3. How the Internet will change the world — even more

    Recently, 895 Web experts and users were asked by the Pew Research Center and the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University in North Carolina to assess predictions about technology and its effects on society in the year 2020.