From Monopoly to Backgammon to Yahtzee, our first experiences with board games almost always feature sets of six-sided dice. They’re a great way to create some randomness and chaos in a game, but ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When faced with simple math problems, people who get jittery about the subject may rely more heavily on certain brain circuitry than math-savvy people do. The different mental approach ...

Here's a question about death and probability, done first by Cory Doctorow. Suppose one out of every million people is a terrorist (if anything, an overestimate), and you've got a machine that can ...