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Behavioral economics, like “lived experience,” existed long before anyone thought a special and seemingly redundant name was required. To Adam Smith, economics was made of human behavior in all its ...

A TikTok theory connecting Stranger Things to The Wizard of Oz has sparked a flurry of speculation and commentary among viewers online, with fans drawing fresh parallels between the two worlds of ...

In recent years, something unexpected has been happening in artificial intelligence. Modern AI appears to be breaking a rule that statisticians have preached for nearly a century: Keep models in a ...

FIRST ON FOX: A prominent education watchdog is sounding the alarm with a report it says shows that the accreditation process for bachelor’s and master's social work programs at top U.S. universities ...

Just about every morning when Daryle Bascom gets to the office, he logs onto his computer and immediately starts bidding online. “It's kind of fun to go out and shop each day,” he said. But he’s not ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal for 50-year mortgages to make housing more affordable has raised eyebrows among industry observers, but a new poll shows the idea could gain traction among America’s ...

ALTOS DE CAMPANA NATIONAL PARK, Panama — Brian Gratwicke’s lunch box was full of frogs. Kneeling on the muddy rainforest floor, the biologist opened his red Coleman cooler and scooped one up. It was a ...

Why doesn't a rising tide raise all or most boats? That is: how does wealth manage to get "sequestered" with the wealthiest? [In theory], they don't put it in big money rooms like Scrooge McDuck: they ...

Money is supposed to make life easier. But whether it makes life easier for parents has become a surprisingly contentious question. But these accounts tended to downplay (or ignore) another important ...

W e write as scholars of academic freedom to respond to the proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” We are politically diverse and do not share common views about the wisdom of ...

The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific innovation, coupled to market ...