For an academic researcher who first trained as a philosopher, then as a psychologist, Robyn Dawes was a practical fellow. He would tell a story from his time working in a psychiatric ward in the ...

It feels like there’s no escaping AI right now, whether you’re trying to type a sentence without being interrupted by a digital “assistant” or struggling to find a new refrigerator that doesn’t ...

Business users can now determine the best course of action under real-world constraints and uncertainty, with input ...

HBR revives “maximizing shareholder value”—what Jack Welch called "the dumbest idea in the world"—treating customers as ...

In Bengal, constituencies where the roll contracted more in the SIR tended to move further toward the BJP relative to the TMC ...

Decisions based on evidence accumulated over time require rules governing when to end the accumulation process and commit to a choice. These rules control inherent trade-offs between decision speed ...

Objective Unlike several other fields of healthcare, little is known about the size of ‘therapist effects’ on patient ...

Fine-scale exogenous attention within the foveola selectively enhances contrast gain at low-to-mid spatial frequencies while increasing response gain across a broad spatial frequency range.

HBR revives “maximizing shareholder value”—the dumbest idea in the world—treating customers as mere constraints. True value ...

AAA projects historic Florida holiday travel crowds despite higher costs at the pump, driven by resilient consumer vacation ...

Montgomery County needs funding for a bus rapid transit line on Route 355. A land value tax would be fairer than the special tax district County Executive Marc Elrich has proposed. One problem: ...

Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease associated with systemic inflammation and metabolic ...