In 1907, a statistician named Francis Galton recorded the entries from a weight-judging competition as people guessed the weight of an ox. Galton analyzed hundreds of estimates and found tha... Read more
Double a city’s population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why. In 2010, in the journal Nature, a pair of physicists at the Santa Fe Instit... Read more
Many workers, in short, are losing the race against the machine A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, m... Read more