Economist Esther Duflo sits with a tableful of men just after winning a Nobel Prize in 2019. She was the second female in history to win the economics prize for her research in global poverty. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images

Female scientists set back by the pandemic may never make up lost time

Science is not egalitarian. Top researchers get more credit and funding than lesser-known scientists. The long-held practices creating inequality also amplify gender disparities that hold back women.
Math provides clues as to why your happy friends are as happy as they seem. MilanMarkovic78/Shutterstock.com

Why it seems like your friends have more to be thankful for

Does it seem like your friends have better lives than you do? Mathematics, in the form of the “majority illusion,” can help explain why.
Many of us are connected some way, somehow. Arthimedes/Shutterstock.com

Our world is getting smaller

Social networks connecting us through kinship and friendship are often small. This can often lead to surprising points of connection between two people who do not know each other.

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