Before she decided to become a poker pro, Maria Konnikova didn’t know how many cards are in a deck. But she did have a Ph.D. in psychology, a brilliant coach, and a burning desire to know whether life is driven more by skill or chance. She found some answers in poker — and she’s willing to tell us everything she learned.
When security cameras and facial recognition tools fail, law enforcement investigators fall back on a witness’s memory and an artist’s hand. Zachary Crockett’s nose was a little bigger than that.
Cory Booker on the politics of fear, the politics of hope, and how to split the difference.
How does an industry built on roadside pop-ups make billions of dollars in two weeks of the year? Zachary Crockett gets pyrotechnical.
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