US public companies are moving away from the traditional shareholders’ meeting, opting instead to interact with investors online. Sensible as this might seem in the internet age, it’s important to ensure that it becomes a way to improve — rather than stifle — communication. The annual general meeting is among the most hallowed institutions of American capitalism: an opportunity, once ...

  At least 94 IS fighters were killed in Afghanistan by “the mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the US military. The US strike using the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, or MOAB, on a tunnel complex in remote eastern Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border killed four IS group leaders too. The ...

  Ronald A. Fisher, one of the fathers of modern statistics, reportedly got on the nerves of many of his contemporaries. But if there’s a reason we should be annoyed with Fisher today, it’s for coining the misleading term “statistical significance.” Those two words don’t necessarily mean that a finding is important or that an effect is big. It only ...