If we zoom out of the mundane and take a bird’s eye view on life, it is simple. We are born, we grow, we reproduce, we take care of our young while gradually declining, and then we die of a long and ...

During the holiday season, more people serve food to the hungry, donate warm clothes to the homeless and give money to charity. But studies at UC-Berkeley show that what motivates people to give comes ...

Despite starting slowly with some academic jargon about altruism and people's motivations to donate organs, the book quickly takes a right turn and gets interesting ...

There’s a great value in being precise when it comes to communication (if you want your message to be understood as you intended it, anyway; when clarity isn’t the goal, by all means, be imprecise).

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Sam bankman-fried explained a curious belief in an interview earlier this year. The boss of ftx, a now-bankrupt crypto exchange, was asked by Tyler Cowen, an economist, what it means to him to be ...