The Republicans said no to a wide range of presidential primary hopefuls, instead settling on Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton has all but won the Democratic nomination, but only after a significant challenge by self-described...
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Photo by Isabel Eyre, via Flickr Which would you rather have: A 50 / 50 chance of winning $500 or nothing $250 for sure Many people prefer the sure $250 over the gamble… even though the lottery has the same expected value...
Photo: DonkeyHotey via Flickr Just a couple of quick observations about how Trump is currently being framed in the 2016 US Presidential election. First, how Team Trump is framing The Donald. Then a look at how the Clinton...
Thanks to my friends at the National Business Group on Health for brightening my day!
The Atlantic reports on another study showing that financial experts do no better than the rest of us when it comes to making investment decisions. The nice part about this study was that the researchers examined how investment...
When my oldest son, Robert, landed a full-time job as a customer service agent at a local consumer electronics company, we went out to dinner to celebrate his success. When we ordered, the server said, “That’s...
It’s clear that being fat has gotten cheaper along almost every dimension: calories cost less, unhealthy calories cost much less, food preparation costs have plummeted, some of the most costly health effects of being fat...
It’s that most wonderful time of the year: a week or two after making those New Year’s resolutions. About half of us make resolutions, but by various measures most of us will have abandoned them by the Fourth of...
The FDA’s new anti-smoking campaign is getting kudos for a savvy approach that proponents say is likely to be more effective among teens than previous attempts. The campaign seems to leverage three key psychological...
Ford is running a (pretty funny) campaign centered on the idea that “and” is better than “or.” In the ad below, for example, Ford asserts that their Fusion hybrid gets better mileage AND looks better than...
