Over the past 50 years, the growth rate of the global human population has slowed markedly, from 2.1 percent annual growth in the late ’60s to about 1.2 percent today. Think 1.2 sounds low? Then you ...

One key factor in understanding math ability is the relationship between math and intelligence, as this sheds light on how general cognitive abilities contribute to and interact with math development ...

I was hoping someone could help me solve this math problem that I thought up (perhaps this would better fit in the Lounge, I dunno, but it is at least tangentially connected to some groups' theories ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, the study by Alessio Zaccone and the late Kostya Trachenko doesn’t predict population ...

The title of today’s post comes from an excellent recent talk in London given by my AEI colleague (and University of Pennsylvania professor), Jesús Fernández-Villaverde. Today I look at the simple ...