Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s “The Mattering Instinct” is an attempt to place human self-understanding on a new footing. We ...

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Discover how credibility theory helps actuaries use historical data to estimate risks and set insurance premiums; learn how ...

The source of many disagreements is that people rely, often implicitly, on two radically different notions of “intelligence." ...

When police questioned Marvin Margolis following the murder of Elizabeth Short — who became known as the Black Dahlia — he lied about how well he had known her. The 22-year-old Short had been found ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...