A fielder’s choice occurs when a defensive player fields a batted ball and chooses to attempt an out on a baserunner instead of the batter. Because the defense prioritizes another runner, the batter ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

“One of the basic axioms of the rational theory of decision under uncertainty is Savage’s (1954) sure-thing principle (STP). It states that if prospect x is preferred to y knowing that Event A ...

MOVING WALL The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. Moving walls are generally represented in years.

Despite working in quantum computing for decades, Akira Furusawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan, has no idea what the quantum-computer era will look like. “It’s going to transform ...

The observed near flatness of galactic rotation curves has long been interpreted as evidence for large amounts of non-baryonic dark matter. Here we show that this phenom ...