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John Alen Paulos in a book review article titled, The Mathematics of Changing Your Mind . At its core, Bayes’s theorem depends upon an ing...

From Robin Dunbar How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks , book review by Michele Pridmore-Bro...

A rather excellent curse as related in Dwight Garner's review of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: How the World Became Modern . Mr....

From Learning and Memory Linked to Holding Objects in Hands by Susan Guibert. Proximity allows us to see differences. Distance allows us ...

Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science by Hillel Ofek. Measurement of things can be horribly abused but it can also significantly cl...

It is important to always expand our understanding of the world and to recognize patterns out there. But once you have identified a pattern...

From The Metro-covery and the Limits of Growth Without Growth by Richard Florida. Talking about which cities are recovering and why - basic...

The Qwikster and the Dead by Megan McArdle. The whole thing reminds me of a quote I once heard from some foreign diplomat about the US. ...

As we move closer to the goal of obviating something we dislike, there is a tendency to invest more in proving how bad the remaining problem...

TV found to have negative impact on parent-child communication and literacy from e!ScienceNews. The results demonstrated that who mothers...