Cognitive dissonance happens when you feel uncomfortable due to having two contradictory beliefs or values. Signs of cognitive dissonance include feeling guilty for actions that don't match your ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

To deal with a bully, stay calm and document the bullying, like taking screenshots of cyberbullying and photos of injuries. If someone is in immediate danger from bullying, call 911 or reach out to ...

Now that we've unpacked some iconic tagline examples, let's take a second to savour what makes them so deliciously effective at sticking around. Have you ever heard those slogans that never seem to ...

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...

Providers generate roughly 137 terabytes of data every day. Most of it is unstructured data, which can be hard to work with in healthcare if there is no data management plan in place. Brian Eastwood ...

A parable is a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. The word "parable" comes from the Greek word "parabolē," which means "comparison" or ...

Slapstick comedy is a purposefully exaggerated form of performance that can portray a cartoonish reality. In the world of slapstick, characters are constantly getting hurt, mugging their faces, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.