Nate Kornell

Sports fans control more of what happens on the court or on the field than they realize. Now if they could just applaud good decisions over flashy bad ones.

Impediments to easy understanding — hard-to-read fonts, hard-to-follow lectures and lessons that are all too soon forgotten — may be the key to really learning something.

Those tone-deaf belters humiliating themselves for our amusement help explain why we think we’re better than the experts.

Is IBM's Watson on the verge of human-like intelligence?

We can learn from Ray Allen, Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon, even if we can never hope to beat them on the court.