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Angel Reese dangerously peddles racist conspiracy theory after WNBA coach calls her two words

A hot mic captured Sandy Brondello calling Angel Reese a "protected species" after a foul call, igniting a fiery racial debate across the WNBA world.…

Early losses for <i>yokozuna</i> in Nagoya no cause for concern — in theory

Even the most disastrous start to a meet by a pretournament favorite is something that can be overcome.…

Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says the unit will divest five studios, including Ninja Theory, alongside 3,200 job cuts, to streamline the business, in a "reset" (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says the unit will divest five studios, including Ninja Theory, alongside 3,200 job cuts, to streamline the business, in a “reset” — Compulsi…

Connections in Math: the two kinds of random

Two files of a million digits, statistically identical, and yet one compresses to three lines and the other never will. Chasing that gap splits the idea of 'compressible' into two …

Bitcoin’s 52-week correlation with USD/JPY hits -0.90, undercutting carry trade theory

Bitcoin's 52-week correlation with USD/JPY hits -0.90, challenging the yen carry trade theory as BTC moves inversely to dollar-yen dynamics.…

A Longstanding Theory of Childbirth Is a Myth

Delivering a human baby is not uniquely difficult.…

Tabulation Tribulations

Previously: Bending, Yanking, and Cartesian Squares in Double Categories. We all know what a graph of a function is: it’s a set of pairs $latex (a, b)$, where $latex b = f a$. Simi…

Theory Spring 2027 Menswear

Theory Spring 2027 Menswear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.…

The Secret Origins of 'Conspiracy Theory'

A new book shows how a phrase made its way from the crime pages to our political arguments—and picked up a passel of meanings along the way.…

The (real) dead economy theory

Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory

Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, a source tells The Verge. Staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, but they are hoping t…

A Simple, Unified Theory of Antisemitism

David Mamet’s Theory of the Lindbergh Kidnapping

After hearing about our podcast, the acclaimed playwright sent Joe Nocera a letter outlining his own theory of the crime—one that puts Charles Lindbergh at the center of the myster…

Pope Leo XIV’s June consistory to focus on ‘just war’ theory, synodality, encyclical – not liturgy

A new letter from Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re outlines consistory sessions on ‘Magnifica Humanitas,’ the ‘international situation,’ synodal implementation, and ‘the common good.’…

Overarming America: Game theory explores how fear and social pressure drive gun purchases

The Dubious Legal Theory That Could Make Life Even More Expensive For Americans

Bad idea?…

Problem on Game Theory from the Russian unified state exam

Open RAN Explained for Network Managers Who Don't Have Time for Theory

You've been in meetings about Open RAN for two years. Everyone has an opinion. Nobody has given you a...…

GTBench: A Curriculum-Grounded Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs as Mathematical Research Assistants in Graph Theory

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as self-study assistants in technical disciplines, yet their reliability as mathematical reasoning assistants remains poorly unde…

A formal definition and meta-model for a machine theory of mind

This paper proposes, for the first time, a rigorous formal definition of the concept of Machine Theory of Mind, based on principles supported by evidence from cognitive psychology,…

My Theory by Albert Einstein(1919)

The Rattled Generation: A unified theory of this American moment

After years of talking to hundreds of CEOs, elected officials, social scientists and ordinary Americans, this is our best take on how things stand in our country right now and a gu…

Why the Brain Cannot Be a Computer

This paper presents a novel information-theoretic proof demonstrating that the human brain as currently understood cannot function as a classical digital computer. Through systemat…

TIL about Snake Detection Theory (SDT), which proposes that snakes contributed to the development of advanced visual systems in primates. Individuals with stronger vision would be better able to recognise snakes and escape from them, therefore passing on their genes to the next generation.

Unified kinetic lattice theory

My theory on time dilation

Pragmata's developers take all your comparisons to Xbox 360 shooters as a 'huge compliment', though I'm not convinced by their theory for why players are making the connection

"That's basically an honour."…

The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History

A Case Study in the Historical Importance of Incompetence…

Can we explain the "infinite time dilation" of DMT/NDEs using information theory and hyper-gamma brainwaves?

The internet feel like a local police radio chatter, not a place of belonging

The Dead Economy Theory

We can laugh at them but we have to take this seriously…

Trump trolls Jill Biden over debate ‘stroke’ remark, offers alternate theory

President Trump mocked former first lady Jill Biden on social media Friday after she revealed in an interview that she believed her husband was “having a stroke” during his disastr…

AWS used random graph theory to build more efficient data centers

How a Slack shout-out, a dusted-off academic theory, and a spaghetti monster led an AWS team to crack an elusive code—and deliver greater reliability and performance for customers.…

Humans have disproved the sum-product conjectures for real numbers

We disprove the sum-product conjecture for real numbers by constructing arbitrarily large $A\subset \mathbb{R}$ (whose elements are algebraic integers in a number field of degree $…

The Star Of Saros Debunks A Theory I Wish He Hadn’t

Sometimes stories hit harder when you don’t know what a creator intended…

Logan Paul injury update: WWE star shows off surgery scar, gives timeline

Logan Paul confirmed he had surgery for a torn triceps but plans to be back in WWE "in a couple of weeks after told his recovery timeline.…

AI slop and how to avoid it with rust-code-mcp and a new way of thingking based on category theory

Any color theory folk wanna explain this?

OmniToM: Benchmarking Theory of Mind in LLMs via Explicit Belief Modeling

Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to infer others' knowledge, intentions, and emotions, is commonly evaluated in large language models (LLMs) using end-point question answering, wh…

New Theory Claims the Vikings Could ‘Bottom Out’ in 2026

Last week, CBS Sports‘ Carter Bahns identified seven teams that could “bottom out” in 2026 and need a quarterback next […]…

Wild theory claiming Fox News guest was wearing hyper-realistic mask triggers internet meltdown

Internet sleuths have come up with the wild theory that this Fox News guest was wearing a hyper realistic mask straight out of mission impossible. Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harwa…

Jupiter’s Largest Moon Has a Rare Magnetic Field. A Strange Theory May Explain It

A new study suggests Ganymede—our neighborhood's biggest moon—still has a hot, churning core cranking out its unique magnetic field.…

A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data

My latest paper, A Test of the Coase Conjecture Using Prices of Electronic Books, with the excellent Tim Groseclose, has just been published. The Coase Conjecture is another one of…

The Antitrust Theory of Everything

Democrats are in thrall to the idea that corporate consolidation is America’s biggest, and maybe only, problem.…

Fuzzy, Neutrosophic, and Uncertain Graph Theory: Properties and Applications

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic survey of graph theory under uncertainty, with particular emphasis on the unifying role of the uncertain graph framework. It revie…

Lattice theory and algebraic models for deep convolutional learning based on mathematical morphology

We develop a rigorous algebraic framework for deep convolutional architectures, CNNs, ResNets, and encoder--decoder networks such as UNet, grounded in lattice theory and mathematic…

Clustering as Reasoning: A $k$-Means Interpretation of Chain-of-Thought Graph Learning

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) on text-attributed graphs (TAGs). This work reframes CoT-…

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‘Big Bang Theory’ Alum Joins Spinoff ‘Stuart Fails To Save The Universe’

We're getting a glimpse of another Big Bang Theory alum in the upcoming spinoff Stuart Fails To Save the Universe.…

Chaos theory: How to assess risk in a wildly unpredictable world

What’s the biggest mistake in geopolitical risk analysis? Underestimating how weird things can get…

Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture

In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program.…

Open Source and the Iceberg Theory – Queue

Redrawing the AI Map: A Theory of Accountability Boundaries in Agentic Ecosystems

Agentic AI orchestrators reduce the interface and assembly costs of composing information systems capabilities across organizational boundaries, seemingly accelerating modularizati…

GENSTRAT: Toward a Science of Strategic Reasoning in Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as economic agents in marketplaces, auctions, and bidding settings. Anticipating their behavior in any specific deployment is…

Evaluating Large Language Models in a Complex Hidden Role Game

Quantifying the deceptive potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) is critical for AI safety, yet difficult to achieve in uncontrolled environments. This work investigates the rea…

PrefBench: Evaluating Zero-Shot LLM Agents in Hidden-Preference Personalized Pricing Negotiations

Personalized pricing negotiations are a challenging testbed for LLM agents because successful interaction does not guarantee profitable decision making. A seller may produce valid …

Graph Alignment Topology as an Inductive Bias for Grounding Detection

Large Language Models (LLMs) are optimized to produce distributionally plausible continuations rather than to explicitly verify whether generated propositions are entailed by sourc…

A mathematical theory of balancing relational generalization and memorization

Humans, animals, and modern machine learning models exhibit impressive abilities to learn complex behaviors and generalize these behaviors to unseen situations. This ability requir…

Defining AI Fatigue in Academic Contexts: Dimensions, Indicators, and a Stage-Based Model Using Grounded Theory

The integration of AI tools in academic settings has introduced a distinct form of strain that existing frameworks like technostress and digital fatigue have not yet fully addresse…