That Plate You Just Dropped Followed a Weirdly Predictable Rule You’ve Never Heard Of

An elegant new equation identifies the surprisingly orderly, mathematical way in which things break, shatter, and fall apart.
The Yale Law Journal

The Hand Formula’s Unequal Inputs

Tort law’s famous Hand Formula does not align with how laypeople judge whether conduct is reasonable. Five original experiments demonstrate that the ...
The Lancet

Effective sample size for individual risk predictions: quantifying uncertainty in machine learning models

Individual prediction uncertainty is a key aspect of clinical prediction model performance; however, standard performance ...
Mother Jones

It’s the Inequality, Stupid

Want more charts like these? See our charts on the secrets of the jobless recovery, the richest 1 percent of Americans, and how the superwealthy beat the IRS. How Rich Are the Superrich? A huge share ...

New universal law predicts how most objects shatter, from dropped bottles to exploding bubbles

When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you're annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, ...