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High school students looking to major in the arts — whether acting, film, painting or any other creative field — will often come across two types of degrees when they go off to college: the bachelor ...

The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles. In late January, Daniel Litt posed an innocent ...

Having the flu is a lousy experience, regardless of the type you have. While news of a rough flu season ahead (spurred by subclade K) continues to make headlines, there are two main types of flu, A ...