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Researchers at SETI are using radio telescopes to listen specifically for signals that are “obviously engineered”—something that nature, at least as far as we know, can’t produce.

The board game has been a national pastime in Russia since well before the Bolshevik Revolution.

The American grandmaster was an impulsive individualist who had an incapacitating fear of losing, says the man who became world chess champion when Fischer refused to show up at the […]

The thirteenth world chess champion had an unrivaled mastery of opening-move theory and was unstoppable when he had the initiative. But “he was not so strong when his king was […]

The Russian grandmaster admits that he found it boring to study chess openings.

The twelfth world chess champion says that, even when things were bleak, he “never lost the will to fight.”

Definitely, says Anatoly Karpov, if marketed correctly. That’s why the Russian grandmaster wants to run FIDE, the World Chess Federation.

The media entrepreneur defends his online aggregation site Newser and explains his lofty alternate career plans.

From the age of four, Anatoly Karpov saw great beauty in chess. He made the game his profession and was the world champion for a decade, from 1975 to 1985.

If the weekly magazine is still being published 25 years from now, Michael Wolff will owe David Remnick a dinner.

Once the paper begins charging for online content in January, the question will be: What does the New York Times become without its readers?

“I can’t imagine why anyone would want to work for this guy,” says Michael Wolff of the Apple CEO.

His first internet company tanked. So was Wolff nervous about launching Newser?

The writer had a feeling of “immense relief that this quixotic enterprise of buying the magazine would not end up as my terrible fate.”

Michael Wolff remembers his first time walking into the “depressing, smoke-filled” newsroom after he was hired—and knowing it wasn’t a place where he wanted to work.

The billionaire media mogul was surprised that Wolff’s biography of him was so “personal.”

A conversation with the Vanity Fair columnist, author of The Biography of Rupert Murdoch and founder of Newser.

Technological solutions may help increase some of the limits of memory, but we should also simply be aware that our intuitions might be wrong.

The psychologist demonstrates the “lowest technology” form of memory test.

We are more likely to believe the veracity of intense “flash-bulb memories”—yet these are just as likely as normal memories to be distorted over time.

We are seduced by the forecasters who seem the most confident. When we follow their advice, we often believe we’re making better decisions than we are.

There’s a whole category of intuitions that are systematically wrong in very dangerous ways—those we have about how our own minds work.

The psychologist’s “invisible gorilla” experiment demonstrates how we often miss major details when we’re concentrating on something else.

A conversation with the Assistant Professor of Psychology at Union College.

Because of William Phillips’ work in laser cooling, atomic clocks are almost a thousand times better than they used to be.

For half of American high school students, college should start when they are 16 years old.

Leon Botstein became the president of Bard at 23, when the college was in a situation of “complete desperation.”

No, says the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra conductor; the most music can offer is common ground.

Engaging the next generation will be like re-introducing a child to vegetables they hated when they were children.

Leon Botstein explains why his “Classics Declassified” is akin to discovering a new city by wandering around.