Your friend says to you: "I bet you $100 that in 2016 a Democrat will be elected as president of the USA." Would you take such a wager? Why or why not? You might think gambling is wrong. You might ...

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Mathematicians may have a better way to measure agreement across different datasets. Agreement affects reproducibility, meta-analysis, and prediction to fill in missing data points. We need a more ...

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Most of us probably remember the storyline of Back to the Future: Part II. Biff Tannen, the movie’s most reviled character, steals Doc Brown’s DeLorean-based time machine, travels into the past, and ...

Thanks to smartphones, we all have a mini casino right in our pocket. The digital public square has turned everyday folks into authorities on a range of topics, but are you willing to bet on it?