In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will is a janitor at MIT--he solves some impossible math problems and shocks the professors. That origin story is taken straight from real life (sort of). George Dantzig was a brilliant mathematician who got his start when he was late to class one fateful day and solved some math problems nobody thought could be solved.
We're circling back to the African Giant Pouched Rat! Turns out, in addition to being super great at detecting land mines, these rats also...
2012 published research detailed how you could influence someone’s honesty on say, a test. It all depended on if they signed an agreement to...
In this longer, old school Brain Junk episode, we go around the world from Thailand to Germany and a few countries in between. We...