In 1961, economist Daniel Ellsberg published a thought experiment that has since become one of the most...
Psychology & Thinking
Most of us learned to argue the wrong way. Not because we were taught badly, exactly, but...
Picture this: you are hiking through a field and you come across a fence cutting right across...
The psychology of cognitive bias has become one of the most popular topics in popular science, with...
A fund manager posts three consecutive quarters of strong returns and attracts a flood of new investment,...
When something goes wrong, the human mind does not always reach for the simplest explanation. It reaches...
A seasoned emergency room physician sees a patient with chest pain and makes a rapid triage decision...
Music is the only thing most people voluntarily introduce into their cognitive environment while expecting it to...
Auguste Rodin reportedly could not think well unless his hands were moving, either sculpting, drawing, or simply...
There is a reason the best surgeons prefer spotless operating theaters, the best chess players notice clutter...