The stress hormone cortisol reduces altruistic behaviors and alters brain activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in people with higher levels of empathy.

Caddy 2.5 introduces new features you'll love as well as a huge number of bug fixes and enhancements. Thank you to everyone who contributed!
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By Laura Nolan, with contributions from Glen D. Sanford, Jamie Scheinblum, and Chris Sullivan. Assessing conditions Slack experienced a major incident on February 22 this year, during which time many users were unable to connect to Slack, including the author…

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Bayesianism, the doctrine that it's always rational to represent our beliefs in terms of probabilities, dominates the intellectual world, from decision theory to the philosophy of science. But does it make sense to quantify our beliefs about such ineffable…

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev shared the below to Robinhood employees following a company-wide meeting to discuss the changes. Today we made the difficult announcement that we are letting go approximately 9% of our full-time employees. While this decision was…

As housing prices soar, owning a home in the U.S. "is a signifier of the upper class now," one real estate economist says.

What do the descendants of dethroned monarchs have to offer the continent in the 21st century?