Nov. 3 -- Probability and risk increasingly permeate our lives. Like it or not, we must be able to assess the threats and opportunities that face us. Here's a random sampling of half a dozen ...

Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ...

Dec. 3, 2006 — -- Many new game shows have appeared in recent years, among them "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire," "Deal or No Deal," and "Show Me the Money." So far none has aroused the ...

Axiom Math, which has recruited top talent from Meta, has raised $64 million in seed funding to build an AI math whiz.

Many statistical studies of geographic nature focus on parametric tests, correlation analysis, probability density functions, and sampling. Several recent studies, concerned with the mapping of ...

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