American firepower alone didn’t lead to military defeat, much less political control. The Tet Offensive in 1968 – when North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched coordinated attacks across South ...

Today is Pi Day for 2026, the universal celebration of an amazing, mysterious, and irrational mathematical constant. What's ...

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Rob Cesternino (@robcesternino) and Akiva Wienerkur (@keev26) need a podcast and every week, Rob and Akiva spin a wheel of ...

Elon Musk is the face of the saying that the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. An entire army of people have fought in the great war of Tesla shorts and lost, including ...

The market had a bit of a 'hiccup' in early trading on Thursday. However, after declining nearly 2.5% in the first hour of trading, the NASDAQ clawed back most of those early losses to end Thursday ...

This is a review of Truth: What It Is, How To Find It & Why It Still Matters. by Michael Shermer, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press. Amidst claims of “fake news,” “alternative facts,” ...

To say the market has gotten frothy is a significant understatement. By almost every traditional valuation metric, equities are as overbought as they were at the Internet Boom. Of course, that has ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

There was a time when your landline phone would ring and you automatically answered without knowing who was calling. Today, the introduction of cell phones, voicemail, and caller ID has allowed us to ...

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An animated journey into the world of rational numbers! A fraction thief disrupts a number town, leading to a fun exploration of fractions, natural numbers, and mathematical concepts. Trump's favorite ...