No doubt you know several folks with perfectly respectable IQs who just don’t seem all that sharp. The behavior of such people tells us that we are missing something important by treating intelligence ...

In a previous post, we considered three of seven "irrational" habits of highly rational people. Here we consider the remaining four, as well as some suggestions for distinguishing the genuinely ...

Steven Pinker’s new bestseller, “Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters,” is filled with riddles and quizzes and problems to ponder. Reading it, I bombed on every single one. The ...

After giving a lecture at a large tech company, I got into a cab bound for the airport along with one of the attendees. As I searched for my seatbelt in the bottomless crevice of the back seat, I ...

I wish I could tell you the secret to always staying calm, cool, and collected in your relationship. But the reality is, no matter how confident you are, fear has a way of creeping in and screwing ...

Vol. 31, No. 3, Part 2: The Role of Central Banks in Money and Payments Systems (Aug., 1999), pp. 561-563 (3 pages) Founded in 1969, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) is a leading ...

The New York Times has an updated Covid warning for its readers: “Right-wing influencers and conspiracy theorists are stoking fears about mass lockdowns and spreading unsubstantiated new ideas about ...

4."Heights. Just trip and you die. I have to cross the highest bridge in my country to get to the store...on my bicycle...with only a small metal fence between me and the awful depths. I die on the ...