A quick thought experiment – imagine asking students to solve the problem ½ + ¼. How do they respond? How do they get to those responses? To many, this will look like a simple problem using familiar ...

The tobacco industry rebranded a brutally addictive drug from deadly to desirable—and the longer-term health consequences may only be starting to unfold. This piece is part of a series of stories ...

The task is simple: walk or die.

After weeks of delay due to the U.S. government shutdown, investors finally got October and November jobs data. The U.S. economy added 64,000 jobs in November , beating a Dow Jones forecast of 45,000.

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

In mid-November 2025, a rumor spread on X that New York City's Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would be introducing "Arabic numerals" to schools in the city. One post from the account of the prediction ...

Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

Monday's one-card tarot horoscope is here with a specific message for each zodiac sign on Monday, October 27, 2025. The Sun is in Scorpio and the Moon is in Capricorn, so the luminaries are a blend of ...