Game theory

Wampanoag chief Metacomet (c.1639 - 1676) who, after years of tolerating the colonists in Massachusetts, finally rebelled against their continued encroachment upon his lands, in what became known as King Philip's War (he was called King Philip by the settlers)

Good first novels without ends leave one wanting more

22 September 2018 9:00 am

Novels today do not want to be done. Thank Anthony Burgess and John Fowles for this, most immediately, but alternate…

Humans are doing democracy wrong. Bees are doing it right

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What the hive knows about democracy that humans have yet to learn

This strategy won Eurovision. It could also save your life

24 May 2014 9:00 am

Oskar Morgenstern grew up in Vienna, John von Neumann in Budapest. Clearly the same Austro-Hungarian intellectual spirit which gave rise…