'Rage bait' is the Oxford Word of the Year, showing how social media is manufacturing anger

It shouldn't come as a surprise that the Oxford Dictionary has named "rage bait" its Word of the Year. The quantity of ...

Chatbots Can Meaningfully Shift Political Opinions, Studies Find

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on ...

Is postmodernism wrecking science? In a provocative book, scientists weigh the evidence

War on Science takes aim at science’s global culture wars. Edited by controversial physicist Lawrence Krauss, it argues ...