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How an outsider won a Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Prize-winning economist parses the roles of emotion, cognition, and perception in the understanding of business risk.

Daniel Kahneman, who has died aged 90, was a psychologist who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics, with Vernon Smith, for work carried out with Amos Tversky which revealed the inadequacy of the most basic assumptions made by economists – that man is a rational being – and led to the creation of a new strand of economic thinking, behavioural economics; he also had interesting things to say about Brexit.

Initial real-world experience with ranibizumab biosimilar agents revealed no unexpected adverse outcomes across 16 retina centers, with similar efficacy to reference ranibizumab.

Just because people don't go to church doesn't mean they don't believe in God or aren't spiritual people.

Dr. Jain lays out why everyone from business leaders have been erroneously applying the 'law of small numbers' to telehealth, contributing...

Most traders as they are functioning under conditions of uncertainty, develop certain ways of thinking and tend to make systematic errors in judgment,

Declarations of the end of race ignore the continuing impact of racism upon socio-economic inequality in ‘racial states’. Nevertheless, the idea of post-racialism has gained ground in a post-9/11 era, defined by a growing suspicion of diversity.

PBS Airdate: February 6, 2007 NARRATOR: 1939: A chemist at a midwestern paint company makes a startling discovery, one that could improve the health of millions of people. The company wants him to stick to making paint, but this man has always gone his own way. He was the grandson of Alabama slaves, yet he went on to become one of Americas great scientists. HELEN PRINTY (Julian Laboratories Chemist) : He had to fight to overcome the odds of being a black man in America. JOHN KENLY SMITH (Histor...

Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Today marks two weeks of declining COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S., 14 straight days without a blip upward, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic. Case numbers, too, are declining, and today the seven-day case average is down a third since its peak, on January 12. That day, the count of current hospitalizations was 131,326; it’s now down to 108,957. It’s the first significant decline since September 21, when the climb down from t...