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Nobel Prize winner, Daniel Kahneman, who pioneered theories in behavioral economics that heavily influenced the discipline, has died at age 90, his employer confirmed. Kahneman, who wrote the best-selling book “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” argued against the notion that people’s behavior is rooted in a rational decision-making process – rather than it is often based […]

Yesterday, CNN Money published an article headlined, “Nobel prize winner tells Clinton: Tax fossil fuels.” The winner in question was Joseph Stiglitz, an economist at Columbia University, who received the prize 15 years ago. As you might expect, the Nobel is hardly his only accolade. He’s not only the World Bank’s former chief economist and […]

Henri Bergson’s debate with Albert Einstein reached and swayed the 1921 Nobel committee.

Earlier today three US-based researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on vesicles, special structures that ferry all kinds of molecules around biological cells, and are fundamental to those cells’ functioning. Their findings provide some key background for our understanding of life—information that will fill textbooks for decades—though they lack […]

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Peter Higgs, who theorized the existence of the ground-breaking Higgs boson 50 years before it was officially discovered, died after a brief illness.

Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) have introduced a bill to rename the Miami federal prison after Donald Trump.

You’re not just aging. Song lyrics are indeed getting simpler and more repetitive, as stated in a study published on Thursday. The study also revealed that lyrics have become angrier and more self-focused in the past 40 years, which supports the beliefs of grumpy older music fans everywhere. A group of European researchers examined the language used in […]

Frans de Waal saw animal behavior with fresh eyes and forever enriched our understanding of primates.

With just a few short weeks until the solar eclipse arrives in Kingston, many are endeavoring to obtain the appropriate protective eyewear.