David Lester, a psychology professor at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, has likely thought about suicide longer, harder, and from more angles than any other human. In more than twenty-five-hun...
Decency can push almost any interaction into the cooperative frame.
Desde mediados de los años sesenta hasta mediados de los noventa, la actividad ciclónica estuvo moderada por la oscilación atlántica multidecenial, un ciclo climático recurrente, de sesenta a ochenta...
Each of us develops a moral compass (some stronger than others, to be sure) as we make our way through the world. This is for the most part a wonderful thing. Who wants to live in a world where people...
El enfoque económico no pretende describir el mundo como cualquiera de nosotros quisiera que fuera, o teme que sea, o reza por que llegue a ser, sino más bien explicar lo que hay en la realidad. La ma...
Enter, therefore, a new and ingenious variant of Ultimatum, this one called Dictator. Once again, a small pool of money is divided between two people. But in this case, only one person gets to make a...
Few people think more than two or three times a year, Shaw reportedly said. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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For until you can admit what you don't yet know, it's virtually impossible to learn what you need to.
From 2002 to 2008, the United States was fighting bloody wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; among active military personnel, there were an average 1,643 fatalities per year. But over the same stretch of ti...
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 firearms than just about any other coun...
In a complex world where people can be atypical in an infinite number of ways, there is great value in discovering the baseline.
La información es un faro, un garrote, una rama de olivo, en total, un elemento de disuasión, dependiendo de quién la maneje y cómo. La información es tan poderosa que la asunción de información, aun...
Los economistas ya han tenido bastantes dificultades para explicar el pasado, así que no hablemos de predecir el futuro.
MODERATOR: Tonight, our guest: Thomas Sargent, Nobel laureate in economics and one of the most-cited economists in the world. Professor Sargent, can you tell me what CD rates will be in two years? SAR...
Married people, for instance, are demonstrably happier than single people; does this mean that marriage causes happiness? Not necessarily. The data suggest that happy people are more likely to get mar...
More people are probably run over each year by TV news vans.
Pero el simple hecho de que dos cosas guarden correlación no implica que una sea la causa de la otra. Una correlación significa, sencillamente, que existe una relación entre dos factores —llamémoslos...
Pero la felicidad se entreveía en una docena de formas más. Parece que ése es el resultado de realizar un trabajo interesante con colegas inteligentes en un entorno hermoso, todo con un sentimiento de...
Poverty is a symptom—of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions.
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