experiment
A tree grows out of the ground. But does it come from the ground? Four hundred years ago, Jean-Baptiste van Helmont planted a willow tree in a carefully weighed…
Back in the 90s, the federal government ran a bold experiment, giving people vouchers to move out of high-poverty neighborhoods into low-poverty ones. They want…
When people in Maine prisons started getting laptops to use in their cells for online classes and homework, it sparked this new idea. Could they have laptops in…
Live event info and tickets here. For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contradictory economic strategies: leaning on friendly communist an…
Live event info and tickets here. If your company got bought by a private equity firm, how would you feel? Maybe a little nervous? You might find yourself wonde…
Imagine you have a fabulous idea to drive more sales on Etsy by giving out free ice cream with every purchase. How would you know if it will actually work? One …
I n 2021, we published a blog post titled “ Increasing experimentation accuracy and speed by using control variates ,” describing how we reduce the variance of …
In 1998 an orange juice maker dumped 12,000 tons of orange peels on degraded pastureland in Costa Rica—transforming it into vine-rich jungle. Christopher Intagl…
When Hurricane Irma blew through the Turks and Caicos, lizards with shorter hindlimbs lucked out. Jason G. Goldman reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi…
Particles called muons are behaving weirdly, and that could mean a huge discovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
