Greed isn’t always as obvious as someone hoarding stacks of gold like a modern-day dragon. Sometimes, it’s subtle, wrapped in polished manners, or cleverly disguised as ambition. The signs of greed ...

Ms. Jong-Fast is a contributing Opinion writer. Donald Trump has never been much for gratitude or giving back. The notion that he owes anybody anything for his success is anathema to his winners-gonna ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

It’s always been a rule in schools that phones aren’t allowed to be used in classrooms. This same rule existed when I was in high school back in the late 2010s, and the same rule exists now. Just from ...

These fancy graphing calculators are only going to get more expensive as back-to-school shopping goes into full swing. By Stan Horaczek Published Jul 29, 2025 2:58 PM EDT We may earn revenue from the ...

Machine learning and neural nets can be pretty handy, and people continue to push the envelope of what they can do both in high end server farms as well as slower systems. At the extreme end of the ...

If you invest a portion of your paycheck each week, you're dollar-cost averaging. Staying the course can help you bounce back from bear markets sooner. As tempting as it is to try to buy at the ideal ...

Abstract: The Steiner Forest Problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem in operations research and computer science. Given an undirected graph with non-negative weights for edges and ...

It is wise for investors “to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful,” according to one of Warren Buffett’s classic aphorisms. But it’s not easy to pinpoint the ...