Superstitions linger into the modern era, in part, because they may be holdovers from a time when they provided a measure of ...

Tens of thousands of people are expected to flock to Omaha, Nebraska, to soak up wisdom from investing wizard Warren Buffett.

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I have come to expect some outlandish ideas to come out of the mouths of Donald Trump, his lackeys/supporters like Rudy ...

If that person publicly corrected their beliefs, they might be ostracized from friends and family. In that case, Kahan suggests, it can be “perfectly rational” for them to simply ignore the scientific ...

Recently in this column, I wrote about a “thoroughly depressing Christmas shopping trip to The Grafton end of town”, with its ...

If you digest those numbers, how could a rational person (admittedly in declining legions) possibly conclude that WNBA players’ salaries should be commensurate? Many WNBA players, unlike the ...

By Ram Puniyani Modi has many ploys up his sleeves when it comes to propaganda. On one hand he is turning many a ...

No rational person will argue against better education, housing, health, transport, safety and, therefore, prospects for the victims of apartheid. But this has not been done. Rather a chosen few have ...