Across classrooms and kitchen tables, adults still talk about “gifted” children as if brilliance were a fragile heirloom that ...

Learn how economists measure utility using cardinal and ordinal approaches to understand consumer choices and maximize satisfaction from products and services.

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Social Security bend points adjust benefit calculations at different income levels. Low earners receive higher benefits proportional to their income under bend point rules. High earners may need to ...

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...

Computational models are mathematical models used to numerically study the behaviour of complex systems by means of a computer simulation. A computational model can be used to make predictions of the ...