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Hopefully this admission is recognized as I attempt to write about Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. It was really hard to follow in what was my first, and almost certainly only read ...

The gambler’s fallacy is a concept known by many names—you might hear people refer to it as the gambler’s paradox, the Monte Carlo fallacy, or the fallacy of the maturity of chances.

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” (1880) bears a heavy burden. Most scholars regard this Russian classic — roughly ...

The screenplay for the television adaptation is based on the novel of the same name The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Directed and adapted by Edmo Fenoglio, shot in black and white with a total ...

I was never a big fan of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (one of the architects of the Vietnam War), but on one matter I thought he was dead right: He always felt a primary ...

The Therac-25 was not a device anyone was happy to see. It was a radiation therapy machine. In layman’s terms it was a “cancer zapper”; a linear accelerator with a human as its target ...

As most developed countries around the world continue to modernize their transportation infrastructure with passenger rail, countries in North America have been abandoning railroads for over a ...