Discover the iterated prisoner's dilemma, its strategies, examples, and impact on cooperation, providing insights into human ...

Discover how the Irrelevance Proposition Theorem explains debt's impact in corporate finance, its origin by Nobel-winning economists, and insights into its real-world applications.

Topline: The best way to learn about astronomy is probably not through interpretive dance, but that is how in 2010 the National Science Foundation decided to educate the public about the big bang ...

War on Science takes aim at science’s global culture wars. Edited by controversial physicist Lawrence Krauss, it argues evidence-based science is under threat.

TOKYO -- In recent decades, Japanese modern and contemporary art have become well established within the broader historical narrative of modernism's evolution from the latter 1800s through the late ...

Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory—an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction ...

Non-communicable diseases—such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and chronic pain—pose significant global health challenges, causing millions of deaths annually.

A new era is dawning in markets, according to Peter Oppenheimer, the head of global equity strategy at Goldman Sachs. Equity-market investors who can move quickly enough to identify winners and losers ...

Broadly diversified portfolios could struggle to generate the same returns going forward, and skillful stock pickers should come out on top Global markets are entering a new "postmodern" era, ...

Paul Thomas Anderson is taking another strike at Thomas Pynchon in One Battle After Another, a modern-day reworking of the reclusive author’s 1990 novel Vineland. And Pynchon himself is back in the ...

The burnt toast theory is a metaphor for life that helps people interpret minor inconveniences as having positive ripple effects or a “silver lining.” It’s related to the butterfly effect. While not a ...

James Berlin's pedagogy employs generalized heuristics grounded in human agency and social-epistemic critique to enable political awareness. By contrast, actor-network theory (ANT) does not explain ...