Dubai offers a gram of gold for every kilo of weight lost
There seems to be a weight problem in Dubai and now the government has come up with a clever incentive: lose a kilogram of weight, get a gram of gold.
Monthly Archive July, 2013
U. S. Behavioral Insights Team
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A behavioral insights team has been approved for the United States government, and, they’re hiring! The team is led by the impressive Maya U. Shankar, Senior Policy Advisor , who is a Ph.D. psychologist and Rhodes Scholar. This team is poised to do good things.
Numbers worth knowing: 142857
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ONE CRAZY NUMBER We at DSN thought it would be worth memorizing some reciprocals because we have a system for remembering numbers and because it might come in handy. So, we started writing out 1/x 1/2 = .5 1/3 = .3 1/4 = .25 1/5 = .2 1/6 = .16 1/7 = .142857 1/8 = […]
Which airline should you be loyal to?
LOYALTY PROGRAM CHOICE BASED ON DEPARTURE COUNT If you read Decision Science News, you’re probably a professor or grad student or researcher or policy type who flies around a lot to conferences, symposia, workshops, tutorials, summer schools, and all-hands meetings. You travel the globe to give talks and work with co-authors. All this flying around […]
