Cuando la pose moral se ve sustituida por una valoración sincera, con frecuencia el resultado es una revelación nueva y sorprendente.
Especialmente por parte de los moralistas altruistas que se han convencido de que su sensibilidad estética y la repugnancia instintiva deberían acabar con cualquier esfuerzo humano por salvar vidas.»
It stank to the heavens; when
Los datos de voto de El eslabón más débil indican que se discrimina sistemáticamente a dos tipos de concursantes: las personas mayores y los hispanos.
Los pacientes de hospital que mueren por una causa que no fue la que los llevó allí: malos diagnósticos (resultado del descuido, el orgullo o los prejuicios), errores de medicación (basados, con demas...
Maestros, criminales y agentes inmobiliarios pueden mentir, y también los políticos, e incluso los analistas de la CIA. Pero los números no.
Tangential
Tragedy of the commons
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...
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.
Honorable mention in the Six-Feet-Under category to the reader who writes: In my hometown [Amarillo, TX], there is a funeral director called Boxwell Brothers. This one can’t be beat.)
51 percent of Indian men said that wife-beating is justified under certain circumstances; more surprisingly, 54 percent of women agreed—
And it would be startlingly cheap. IV estimates the Save the Arctic plan could be set up in just two years at a cost of roughly $20 million, with an annual operating cost of about $10 million. If cool...
Armed with information, experts can exert a gigantic, if unspoken, leverage: fear. Fear that your children will find you dead on the bathroom floor of a heart attack if you do not have angioplasty sur...
Being confident you are right is not the same as being right.
But guns are not the whole story. In Switzerland, every adult male is issued an assault rifle for militia duty and is allowed to keep the gun at home. On a per capita basis, Switzerland has more firea...
But putting your faith in a coin toss—even for a tiny decision—may at least inoculate you against the belief that quitting is necessarily taboo.
But running with the herd means we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.
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...
Correlation does not equal causality. When two things travel together, it is tempting to assume that one causes the other. Married people, for instance, are demonstrably happier than single people; do...
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