The Science
Our meta-research across disciplines: behavioral economics, cognitive science, complexity science, computer science, decision science, design, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Science is changing because boundaries between disciplines are dissolving. Our research dissects the latest books and papers. Highly curated, an antidote to information overload.


Our 22 Best Books of '22
Our favorite reads from 2022 about humans, machines, data, decisions, and problems.


Top 10 books for 2021 on human intelligence for curious AI folks
Covid gave us a chance to read—a lot! As we prepare for the holidays (and factoring in supply chain issues and shipping delays) we thought we’d share the books that have had the most influence on our ideas about the emerging human-machine community this year.

Microsoft publishes the science of human-machine collaboration
Microsoft researchers recently published one of the most exciting advances in AI this year, IMO.

Facebook's GIPHY acquisition is genius
Helping Facebook's AI understand hidden meaning by acquiring GIPHY.

Facebook "subsidizes" polarization
Facebook’s algorithms cause political polarization by creating “echo chambers” or “filter bubbles” that insulate people from opposing views about current events.

Why is HR so gullible?
This was the question asked this week by a Princeton comp-sci professor.