Friends, Romans Earthlings, Countrymen Planetmen, lend me your ears:
Homo Economicus is dead. We have lost him a few days ago, but we have missed him for a long time. We have missed his rational actions, his rational voice in our daily actions.
Homo Economicus was the man whom, when given a set of information, would make [...]

It is a Chinese tradition that during Chinese New Year, older (and usually wiser) married people would give red packets (Mandarin: 红包 - hong bao; or Hokkien: Ang Pau) to younger, unmarried people. Inside these red packets, there would be money (yay!!!), usually in even numbers (though these few years it started to be a [...]

I read this morning (yea, I wake up early, big deal. Sue me if you want), Dubner wrote that the Ancient Greeks were smarter than thought. Yea, if you have been following BBC’s RSS headlines, you’d probably see the news about the world’s first computer by the Greeks (in your face, Babbage!), and that it [...]