Civil engineers can rightfully claim that no two bridges are exactly alike. However, bridges share many known characteristics, and the materials they are built with have known characteristics.

Although the concept of the common good has been subject to normative theorising for millennia, it is now widely understood as an "essentially contested concept," leading scholars to argue that, in ...

SVP/Chief Innovation Officer leading Innovation Force @Cambia Health Solutions. It's all about the beauty of transformation and innovation. The Matrix is an amazing movie series that transformed the ...

Editor’s Note: Published in 1957, this article comes from Martin Gardner’s legendary Scientific American column Mathematical Games. Read more in our special digital issue, Fun and Games. A paradox is ...

Robert Pepperell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A few years ago, a friend of mine brought the idea of paradoxical leadership to my attention. I had never heard of it before and didn't do a deep dive until a separate colleague mentioned it again. It ...

Researchers say that if you're worried about paradoxes in time travel, you shouldn't be. Based on a lot of complex math, the team says they've determined that paradoxes related to time travel would be ...