When I was a child, there was a commercial on (black and white) TV that had a very happy woman telling a friend about some beauty product, and then that friend told several friends about it, "and so ...

Suppose you saw in the news that there was a new disease, and one person was hospitalized with it. There had been no hospitalizations before today—and yet, there had been 12,800 positive tests today ...

Mathematician Eugenia Cheng explores the uses of math beyond the classroom. Read more columns here. In the era of Covid-19, exponentials have been in the public eye more than usual, since they are at ...

This question is meant to be provocative, and it was inspired by a Tweet from an economist named Dr. Julie Pierce. The longer the crisis goes on and the more comments I read, the more I wonder how ...

When we think of our savings, we tend to think in linear terms. If you save $20 every week for a year, you'll have $1,040 by the end of the year. However, when it comes to saving money (or anything ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. If Christmas is (alas) a time for a materialist blowout, January is often a time for rueful reflection. Should we ...