Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Why Psychologists Haven’t Agreed on the Basic Human Values—Until Now Personality traits are stable patterns in the way we think, feel, and behave (Johnson, 1997, p. 74). In a previous PT post, I ...

Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. This is the kind of math riddle you can work out with times tables, or by simple logic. First, get as close to 1,000 as you can (888). From there, it’s easy to ...

The market has absorbed the early blows of President Trump’s tariffs, making up all its lost ground. Yet that rekindles a Wall Street worry from earlier this year: By the typical measures, stocks look ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...

Lemire talked about the fact that he and the other writers — Scott Snyder, Jason Aaron, Kelly Thompson, Deniz Camp, Al Ewing — meet up online every week to discuss their plans for what’s happening ...

Prime numbers—numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves—have long fascinated mathematicians. This year a researcher discovered the largest known prime number, with a whopping 41,024,320 digits. It ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “The most important thing was to get the heart of Superman right, the heart of who this character ...

Since Coke and PepsiCo are so dominant and so similar in their products and marketing, most people assume they are almost always efficiently priced and valued at about the same level. In valuing KO ...

An invasive Burmese python in the Everglades was spotted eating a white-tailed deer around 67% of its mass by stretching its mouth to almost the maximum width of what is physically possible. When you ...