For more than a century, Srinivasa Ramanujan’s uncanny formulas for the number pi have looked like pure mathematical ...

Discover how Freudian motivation theory impacts investor behavior, drawing on unconscious desires and motives for informed financial decisions.

Discover how the Centipede Game illustrates conflict between self-interest and mutual benefit, as well as why real-world ...

A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research.

In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star of Bethlehem, he wrote that it should be “classified with the comets which ...

James W. Dearing ([email protected]) is a professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, in East Lansing. Jeffrey G. Cox is a research associate in the Department of ...

Both Covid-19 and systemic racism pose real life-or-death dangers. So why are so many people becoming preoccupied instead with threats that have no grounding in reality? It’s partly because of the ...

The burnt toast theory is a metaphor for life that helps people interpret minor inconveniences as having positive ripple effects or a “silver lining.” It’s related to the butterfly effect. While not a ...

Self-affirmations can help increase your self-worth and motivation. With regular practice, you can shift your focus toward your strengths and adapt to new circumstances more easily. Self-affirmation ...