Do people reflexively fear the new? They seem to reject it often enough that there’s a psychological syndrome to explain it. The Semmelweis Reflex is named after a guy who came up with a radical idea ...

The Semmelweis reflex is a phenomenon in which novel evidence or ideas are rejected outright because they contradict established norms or beliefs. This reflexive dismissal can be particularly ...

A data analyst is hired to analyze a problem a baseball team is having. He studies and studies the problem from as many angles as possible but still can’t solve the issue. Finally, he comes upon some ...

It was nice when we looked back at pandemics and thought science had put them in the past. American California was born during a 14-year cholera pandemic, as the disease spread through Europe, New ...

It may often seem like the world is on the brink of destruction, whether it is because of global climate change, a new disease, political turmoil or natural disasters. Yet, the greatest danger that ...

Alan Kay, a pioneering computer scientist, defined technology as “anything that was invented after you were born.” For many of us, this definition of technology captures the whiz-bang innovations of ...