The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, an unsolved mystery playing out in real time, embodies a similar paradox. The 84-year-old ...

In 1865, William Stanley Jevons first described a paradox. He maintained that more efficient steam engines would not decrease the use of coal in British factories but would actually increase it. As ...

We are always solving problems, some of which have instantly obvious solutions and others that do not. In the latter case, the word puzzle comes to mind instead. A problem can be defined therefore as ...

The race paradox in mental health refers to rates of depression and anxiety being lower in Black people in the United States compared to white individuals. This is despite Black individuals typically ...