People generally just don't get what poverty actually means. This is a charge often enough aimed at me and people like me, well off white guys who pontificate upon economics. But those making that ...

Cycling performance is often evaluated based on two varying metrics: absolute and relative power output. These metrics provide valuable insights into a cyclist’s fitness and performance capabilities, ...

Last week I completed my first self-supported, multi-stage, ultra-marathon “race” in Lapland, above the Arctic Circle. After more than 50 previous ultras, none of which have lasted more than a couple ...

To place this in a simple example, if you want to get picked for the basketball team, you're looking to be taller than other people; increasing everyone's height by 3 inches doesn't uniquely benefit ...

Clinicians can present numbers to patients using numerical formats instead of vague words, fixed denominators, absolute ...

WASHINGTON — By now we've all heard that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has an efficacy rate of 95%, Moderna of 94%, and Johnson & Johnson about 66%; what you may not have known is that rate's technical ...

The amount of absolute risk reduction from a statin in a person without known heart disease depends mostly on a person's ...

As the comedian Louis CK quipped some time ago, "Everything is amazing right now and nobody is happy." In that instance he was referring to the massive technological improvements that have arisen in ...