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In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. It languished in obscurity for centuries until computers came along and made it easy to crunch the numbers....

Each year about 28 million Americans begin a search for a new job. Millions more live in the age of the permanent job search, their online profiles eternally awaiting a better offer. Job seekers are more mobile and better informed than ever....

How important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon any information in seconds. Why should we bother learning facts at all? William Poundstone confronts that question....

You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of America's best companies, you need to have an answer to this and other puzzling questions....

A practical guide to outguessing everything from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market....

In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich....