This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On a nippy Monday night at the Zebulon in Frogtown, a man wearing a Jason Voorhees T-shirt steps onto a ...

Experts explain how FOMO, social proof and performance culture have turned ordinary snacks into global must-queue experiences. Thomas A P van Leeuwen has a riveting view from his Amsterdam flat. His ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As a nation, the UK holds queues in high regard. To those watching from abroad, the 10-mile line to view Queen ...

Queueing theory—a mathematical framework that’s typically used to study, understand, and manage wait times and lines—is usually applied to improve efficiency in settings such as grocery stores, ...

Lectures on Tap series brings professors and other experts into Boston restaurants and bars for talks that mix big ideas with food and drink. Lectures on Tap, an event series, brings ticketed lectures ...

Steven S. Kaufman Family Anatomy of a Trial Lecture Series In this second installment of the Steven S. Kaufman Family Anatomy of a Trial Lecture Series, litigator John K. Villa—described by The ...

RUDN University mathematician proposed an artificial neural network for solving the queuing theory problems that arise, for example, in computing systems or business processes. Together with classical ...

On a windy Thursday night in downtown Boston, the hanging portraits of Bostonians past seemed to watch over the bustling crowd in Democracy Brewing‘s backroom. Sixty young professionals claimed seats ...

The shaping of the public sphere is inherently open, created through discourse in time and space. In a time when discourse is challenged, how can we open dialogue and investigate the ephemeral but ...