Tides of Tomorrow has a great central conceit, but that feature can sometimes get in the way of the actual story.

New research looks at how movement-based games like Simon Says and Red Light, Green Light can improve a young student’s self ...

Whether now is a good time to expand your cow herd depends on what all your neighbors, like those in the game, choose to do. ...

Although there are liberal chemtrail believers, aversion to uncertainty might explain why the theory has become so popular ...

Military strategists use game theory to evaluate possible strategies—but there are limits to what this approach to ...

Ceasefires have a history of being frequently and cannily flouted without regressing fully to all-out war. The agreement to ...

Scott Duke Kominers ’09 is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Department of Economics. A pair of hikers comes ...

The recent US-Israel strikes on Iran have triggered sharp equity declines and surging oil prices, but Game Theory suggests a short-lived conflict. I expect a rapid mean reversion in oil prices and ...

Titled Game of Thrones: The Mad King, the play will premiere this summer in Stratford-upon-Avon, and tell the story of the tourney at Harrenhal. Taking place in 281 AC, just a couple of years before ...

I grew up in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville when it had more gun racks than yoga mats. In elementary school, I was one of two black kids in the entire building. It was the early 1980s: faded ...

Jeez, RPG board games are so hard to get right, aren't they? They have to deliver adventurous, imaginative freedom, a real sense of setting and characters, and meaningful storytelling, all in the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.