Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts

The work of media scholar Alice Marwick can help explain why factchecking often fails when used in isolation. Her research ...

“I Care About Players’ Health”: Biophysicist Uses George Kittle’s Injury to Back 49ers ‘Conspiracy Theory’ on Electrical Substation

The San Francisco 49ers’ injury list has felt endless this season, but the latest blow — George Kittle’s non-contact Achilles ...

Markov Chains : The Strange Math That Predicts Almost Anything

Discover how Markov chains predict real systems, from Ulam and von Neumann’s Monte Carlo to PageRank, so you can grasp ...

Signal’s Founder Built a Chatbot That Can’t Spy on You

Moxie Marlinspike, the cryptographic prodigy who wrote the code that underpins Signal and WhatsApp, has a new project—and it ...
Scientific Research Publishing

An Inequality for Experimentally Testing the Violation of Savage’s Sure-Thing Principle ()

“One of the basic axioms of the rational theory of decision under uncertainty is Savage’s (1954) sure-thing principle (STP).
World Bank

Social Protection and Labor

Social protection and labor systems promote better employment, prevent income loss, and protect people facing shocks and transitions. These programs are not just about helping people get by, they help ...