The Best Prediction Ever: Darwin and the Founder Effect How did Charles Darwin make the best prediction ever? Why are there more accents in the UK than in the US? Why are there yellow watermelons in Africa? Weirdly these all have the same answer.
Negative Opportunity Cost Economists rate opportunity cost as the most important economic concept for the public to understand. Turns out it comes in two flavors.
Personal Export Subsidies Can the secret to South Korea's economic development also help your teenager?
When Bits Split Atoms Artificial Intelligence and that time the US Secretary of Defense thought we were all going to die.
For And Against Pre-Scheduling Posts Pre-scheduling posts has a couple of big benefits and a couple of major costs.
If the Present is Better than the Past, Bias Towards Action If the mean human action has been positive, the base rate is a positive expected value.
The Theory of Displacement Value What do homeopathy, Tourette's-like tics and traditional religion have in common? They have displacement value.