To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience or the logic of cause and effect, has helped us ...

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT show reasoning errors across many domains. Identifying vulnerabilities is good for public safety, industry, and the scientists making these models. The human ...

It’s the time of year when consumer trend reports fall like snowflakes. We set aside the overlapping PowerPoints and asked a group of futurists, strategists, consultants and investors to make their ...

At a recent concert, Portugal. The Man enlisted two maestros of musical comedy, “Weird Al” Yankovic and the Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone, for a very sincere — though obviously still very fun — cover ...

Squaring a square sounds simple, but the math behind it is one of the strangest puzzles ever created. It requires cutting a square into smaller squares—all different sizes—with a pattern that doesn’t ...

Logical fallacies are flaws in reasoning. They are often called informal fallacies. It's becoming more common for people to call out these fallacies by name. You often hear accusations of people ...

Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan’s 2010 article, "The weirdest people in the world?" was a watershed. Two years earlier, Arnett (2008) defined the extent to which psychological science relies on narrow ...

After taking his "Bigger & Weirder 2025" tour to 67 cities including Columbus, "Weird Al" Yankovic will bring an even bigger, weirder show to the Ohio State Fair next summer. The first performer to be ...

The government shutdown has entered day 36, making it the longest shutdown in U.S. history—but Congress seems further than ever from coming to a resolution to end it. That’s in large part thanks to ...