First year students are invited to enroll in Boston College’s innovative Complex Problem and Enduring Question University Core courses. These courses are collaboratively taught by faculty members from ...

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The more I think about the reported Matthew Knies trade that nearly sent him to the Montreal Canadiens, the less interested I am in the specific players involved. It’s what these players represented.

PORTLAND (WGME) – Maine’s Question 2 asked voters if they wanted to pass what's known as an "extreme risk protection order," better known as a “red flag law” for Maine. The polls were in Portland ...

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''Words arranged differently have different meanings, meanings arranged differently have different effects'' — Blaise Pascal (Pensées) In the field of psychotherapy, the role of the question is often ...

When the Clay Mathematics Institute put individual $1-million prize bounties on seven unsolved mathematical problems, they may have undervalued one entry—by a lot. If mathematicians were to resolve, ...

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When computer scientists hang out at cocktail parties, they're apt to chat, among other things, about the single most important unsolved problem in computer science: the question, Does P = NP?

In 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at first seemed like nothing more than a fun exercise in geometry. Lay an infinitely thin, inch-long needle on a flat surface, then rotate ...