The rapidly changing world has been conditioning us for a while and subsequently forcing us to subscribe to the concept of multitasking while offering all the technology to “help” us do so. On the ...
Humans have a complex body with more degrees of freedom than needed to perform any particular task. Such redundancy affords flexible and adaptable motor behavior, provided that all degrees of freedom ...
In patients with stable coronary artery disease, it remains unclear whether an initial management strategy of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with intensive pharmacologic therapy and ...
Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of chatbots. By Siobhan Roberts The words “optimal” and “optimize” derive from the ...
“All in.” Your opponent slides a stack of chips across the high-stakes poker table. You glance back at your cards, a pair of sixes. The game is Texas Hold’em. Only two of you remain, and no community ...
Following a healthy lifestyle often seems incredibly complicated. Advertisements and experts all around you seem to give conflicting advice. However, leading a healthy life doesn’t need to be ...
Bryan Caplan is an economist and a dad who has thought a lot about the joys and stresses of being a parent. When I asked him whether there is an ideal number of children to have, from the perspective ...