Is there any way to tell if something is true or not? Without the benefit of a lie detector or Pinocchio’s growing nose, some sentences can leave you stumped. There are some facts that sound so ...

Quizzing – whether at a dinner party, in the pub, or on a hen do – is a peak British activity, and we're not afraid to admit that we're pretty damn good at it, too! For those in the know, there are so ...

If you're anything like us, you love to test your knowledge every time you hang out with your friends. (And colleagues, and family members, and...literally everyone else.) We love a good low-stakes ...

Tech companies say the solution to AI-powered deepfakes is AI-powered deepfake detector tools. But what if the best way to distinguish true from false is anything but technical? Image: January 30, ...

Matthew Duncombe receives funding from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. These stories are fanciful, but they point to something maddeningly true about paradoxes: there cannot be a single, ...

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