If you really want to persuade someone who doesn’t wish to be persuaded, you should tell him a story.
If almost all letters have stamps, then the benefit of checking each one with 100 percent accuracy is infinitesimal, so it makes sense to let some unstamped letters through.
History clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others’. This doesn’t make them bad people; it just makes them human.
Herley would like to see a smart computer programmer pretend to be dumb in order to outwit a smart scammer who is also pretending to be dumb in order to find a victim who is, if not dumb, then extreme...
Government agents sardonically known as the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces to administer pregnancy tests. If a woman repeatedly failed to conceive, she was forced to p...
En las naciones industrializadas, la tasa actual de muerte materna durante el parto es de 9 mujeres por cada 100.000 partos. Hace solo cien años, la tasa era más de cincuenta veces más alta.
El 28% de las mujeres de la página web declaraban ser rubias, un número bastante superior a la media, lo cual indica grandes dosis de tinte, de mentira, o de ambos.
Dead horses were extremely unwieldy
Children read books, not reviews, he wrote. They don’t give a hoot about the critics. And: When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority. Best of all—and to the relie...
But wouldn’t it be nice if we all smuggled a few childlike instincts across the border into adulthood? We’d spend more time saying what we mean and asking questions we care about;
But in both instances, the dissemination of the information diluted its power. As Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once wrote, Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
But if you are told that you have a 10 percent chance of dying within the next year, you might worry a lot more, perhaps even choosing to live your life differently. And if you are told that you have...
A veces, a los políticos les gusta pensar como economistas y utilizan incentivos económicos para fomentar la buena conducta. En los últimos años, muchos gobiernos han empezado a basar sus impuestos de...
«La disposición de causas y consecuencias de este mundo es tan inescrutable que un impuesto de dos peniques sobre el té, aplicado injustamente en una parte aislada, cambia la condición de todos sus ha...
You cannot solve tomorrow’s problem if you aren’t willing to abandon today’s dud.
Vaunted progress as a major player in the global economy,
Una hamburguesa con queso, como ha calculado el economista Kevin Murphy, cuesta 2,5 dólares más que una ensalada en repercusiones en la salud a largo plazo.
Un padre dominante se parece enormemente al candidato político que cree que el dinero gana elecciones, cuando en realidad si un candidato no gusta a los votantes no saldrá elegido ni con todo el diner...
Panache.
Ofrecer a los donantes de órganos incentivos como «amnistía fiscal, seguro de enfermedad garantizado, becas universitarias para sus hijos, depósitos en sus cuentas de jubilación, etcétera.»