Dean Baker has earned a reputation for predicting economic catastrophe, and he tries to follow his own advice. After the economist warned of a stock bubble in the late 1990s, he rebalanced his ...

Research has long shown that meditation influences brain function, but exactly when changes begin after starting — and how they evolve with continued meditation — has been less clear. A recent study ...

"I'd love to meditate, but I just don't have the time.” It's one of the most common reasons people give for not starting meditation: Many assume you need years of daily meditation to feel the ...

A single week of intensive meditation and mind-body practices led to measurable changes across the brain and body. Researchers observed improved brain efficiency, boosted immune signaling, and ...

Artificial intelligence is the hottest trend since the advent and proliferation of the internet three decades ago. Although the dot-com bubble and AI revolution have their differences, they share one ...

“AI is a bubble! It’s going to pop! Just like the dot-com crash!” Not a day goes by without headlines anxiously comparing the current AI boom to the internet bubble of the 1990s. Indeed, the surface ...

Imagine being asked to sit alone in a quiet room for 15 minutes with nothing to do – no phone, no music, no external distraction. In a well-known 2014 study, many participants found that task so ...

In 2008, when the housing bubble burst and the global economy crashed, policymakers were caught flatfooted. Despite months of worry and concern about a housing bubble, signs of financial institutions ...

The 2026 NCAA tournament bracket will arrive in just a few hours. For now, all attention turns to the bubble, where teams either still find themselves playing for an automatic bid or waiting to see if ...

Selection Sunday is right around the corner, but many men's college basketball teams around the nation still have work to do to hear their name called inside that 68-team field. That includes the 12 ...

The tech billionaire Hemant Taneja admits that AI is a bubble. In fact, he welcomes it: “Bubbles are good,” Taneja, the CEO of General Catalyst, a venture-capital firm, told me in an email. If AI ...

High-major conference tournament action gets underway on Tuesday as the ACC, Big 12 and Big Ten begin postseason play with some action that will put bubble teams under the microscope. First-round ...