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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. Humans

    Gambling on experience

    Perceptions of risk can get pulled in opposite directions.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Astronomy

    Can you hear me now?

    Astronomers reconsider how extraterrestrials could make contact.

    By Elizabeth Quill
  4. Earth

    A fresh look at Mount St.