Humans have been solving problems since the beginning of time. Our problem-solving skills are responsible for spurring social and technological advancement. However, over time, our individual skills ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. During a lab meeting, one of our PhD researchers recalls how her father would forbid her from using paper to help ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We present a primal-dual method to solve L¹-type nonsmooth optimization problems independently of the grid size. We apply these results to two ...

Often leaders will think they are driving a problem-solving culture by insistent, or even just encouraging, team members to utilize the tools and templates of problem-solving. However, most ...

As demonstrated in a series of new studies, researchers show that as the prevalence of a problem is reduced, humans are naturally inclined to redefine the problem itself. The result is that as a ...

I found Shane Snow’s essay on prison reform — “How Soylent and Oculus Could Fix the Prison System” — through hate-linking. Friends of mine hated the piece so much that normally-articulate people were ...