What do shark attacks have to do with Star Trek: TOS and misleading news stories? Statisti-HEY COME BACK!

It seems the Christmas season comes earlier every year…and there’s actually a decent reason why: game theory!

Happy THUNKiversary!

The eight-hour workday has been a standard for centuries. Have you ever wondered why?

How do allied players in Settlers of Catan always come out ahead? I’ll trade two sheep for some social capital.

Some argue that faith or lack thereof indicates intelligence, but it’s pretty clearly more indicative of culture.

In some ways, trolling seems like it’s an intrinsically anti-geek activity.

Higher taxes will be better! Or maybe lower ones! Or maybe a totally different tax plan! Or maybe it’s just really really really hard to know anything about economics.

Have you ever found yourself acting in weird ways after consuming a work of fiction? Turns out it’s something our brains are wired for.

The biggest obstacle between you & having your very own whatever-it-is is just the misconception that “making” is just for factories.