When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled the stock and passed out on ...

Smart people know what’s worth their time and energy. They set clear boundaries and avoid certain behaviors that drain their mental resources. Understanding what intelligent individuals won’t put up ...

Sometimes, when it seems like a person is being mean, their behavior is actually a sign that they have extreme emotional intelligence.

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People who are unusually intelligent tend to look at the world in a way that takes in the bigger picture. This special skill ...

Speaking on the prospect of artificial general intelligence, LeCun suggested it’s a misnomer, because human intelligence, in his view, is not general. He prefers the term “human-level intelligence,” ...

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The teachers’ behavior was irrational, not so much because it showed a lack of formal logic (which may have contributed to their mistaken reading of history) but because it showed a lack of social ...

Cats are smarter than we think. Experts explain how feline intelligence works and how high a cat’s cognitive ability can ...