Grade inflation is back in the news. Several months ago, Harvard University stirred media attention with a report that, in 2001, half of its undergraduate grades were A or A-minus. More recently, a ...

Both Mona Chalabi’s BBC3 programme on 5 October and her Guardian article (We’re all racist, but white racism is worse, 6 October) were fascinating and worrying. But what neither she nor anyone else ...

COMMENT | The AI definition of conflation: the process of combining or fusing separate things into one, often in a way that is inaccurate or misleading. Surely “conflation” is a strong candidate for ...

At first glance, not much is common between Avi Loeb and Tim Harford. One is the chairman of the department of astronomy in Harvard University and the other an economist who writes for the Financial ...

Wikipedia: Conflation occurs when the identities of two or more individuals, concepts, or places, sharing some characteristics of one another, become confused until there seems to be only a single ...