Do you consider yourself a rational thinking person? Most people do, but there are factors that play into decision making that distort rationality in an the equation. Economics theories are based on entities behaving rationally, but in practice people often ... Read more
Thomas Schelling is a well known economist and social scientist. While reading The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki, I learned about a social experiment that Schelling conducted. The experiment posed the following problem to a group of New Haven ... Read more
Why are there so many friggin social bookmarking sites? Did they all come up with the idea at the exact same time or did a bunch of developers have a brief moment of creative euphoria in which they actually came ... Read more