Trying to fit in is likely to make you miserable. Accepting your differences as assets and applying them is more effective. Normality is a subjective, relative concept: a conundrum, an enigma, and an ...

Where \(X\) is a normally distributed random variable with mean \(\mu\) and standard deviation \(\sigma\). The peak of the curve occurs at \(x=\mu\), and the spread ...

Imagine you're at a fair, and you see a booth with a giant dartboard. The booth owner challenges you to hit the bullseye. You take your shot, and the dart lands somewhere on the board. Now imagine ...

James and Oliver Phelps (aka Fred and George Weasley) talk to a star-studded selection of friends, colleagues and personal heroes who stepped into the limelight at a young age, and find out what ...

It’s high time we put the most enduring myths about human behavior to bed, and see the mind—and the world—as it is. It is past time that we rethink what we mean by the words "normal" and "abnormal" as ...

Amid crisis and disruption, we crave the calm of normality. But can we ever really define what “normal” is? I’m writing this in my home office, wearing my bathrobe. I am currently placed under a ...

It's been an unusual political year, to put it mildly, and you could write most of its story just by tracking its effects on the lexicon — the new words and new uses of old ones, some useful, some ...