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What Is Citizen Science? Citizen science is the idea that science belongs to everyone—not just professional scientists. Throughout history, many important discoveries have come from curious people asking good questions, collecting observations, and contributin…
I was thinking about a strange hypothetical the other day. Suppose I told you I had the greatest marketing opportunity in the world. Not a great produ…
The Happy Mind Blown Emoji: Why Learning Should Feel Good At Cabrera Research Lab, we spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to really learn…
A fable tells the story of when the inventor of chess showed his new game to the Emperor of India. The Emperor is so impressed he exclaims, “name your…
Empirical Evidence for a Cognitive Framework to Solve Wicked Problems Derek Cabrera 1,2,3,* and Laura Cabrera 1,2,3 Cornell University Cabrera Researc…
How Socratic Logic and Aristotelian Logic Differ, and How DSRP Multivalent Logic Offers an Alternative You might think that logic is "boring" or "math…
Can you spot the bias?DSRP is a form of bias inoculation. In the table below, biases are ranked in order of how fundamental and common they are and th…
The Problem With “Systems Thinking” For decades, systems thinking has been touted as the ultimate tool for understanding complexity. From leadership t…
Culture is an enigma — shrouded in mystery, wrapped in magic, and cloaked in a fog of confusion. We are told, with great authority, that "culture eats…
As a doctoral student at Cornell University long ago, I TA'd an intro course in evolutionary bio for one of my advisors, an iconic evolutionary biolog…
Senge’s work was almost entirely based on the work of another scholar named Jay Forrester at MIT under the name of “Industrial Dynamics” or later “Sys…
I recently came across an article about a 'mystery monkey' found in the jungles of Borneo (pictured below). A tour guide took a picture of this myster…
