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Who knew that Darwin and Pearson had little faith in fancy math?
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A new book by Phil Tetlock and Dan Gardner on Super-Forecasting.
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Check out this announcement of a new book by Paul Slovic and son.
Brian Wansink’s new book “Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life” is out and is on one of our favorite topics: Nudges for eating better.
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Do non-compete agreements result in worse work?
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If you ask people in the US “What generic word do you use to describe carbonated soft drinks?”, you get data that look like these. Pop in the Midwest. Coke in the South. Soda everywhere else.
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DO NOT LIE ABOUT RISK: PRESENT PROBABILITIES TRUTHFULLY OR NOT AT ALL On July 7th 2005, four bags containing bombs were left on London public transport. They exploded, killing 52 people. Bombs in two bags at the Boston Marathon this year killed three. We can imagine the policy-maker’s thinking when they came up with this […]
If you’ve ever wondered about The Heuristics Debate, this is the book for you. If you have no interest in heuristics, you’ll probably be happier with another book. How about one of these?
We’re happy to announce a new book by Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg called Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results.
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In response to last week’s post, my mother sends along this passage from the story “Can I just sit here a while” in Ron Hansen’s Nebraska: Stories. In the story, the salesman it telling an acquaintance that he “discovered a gimmick, a tool which handn’t failed him yet. It was called the Benjamin Franklin close.”
