It doesn’t make sense that exercise is good for you. Its just unnecessary wear and tear on your body. Take the analogy of a car. Would it make sense to take it out for a drive up and down t...
I haven’t decided yet and I can’t figure out which side this is evidence for: Me: Oh I have to remember to set up your desk today because I promised that I would and that if I didn’t I wo...
From The New Yorker Now, imagine an animal that emerges every twelve years, like a cicada. According to the paleontologist Stephen J. Gould, in his essay “Of Bamboo, Cicadas, and the Economy of...
We were interviewed by the excellent Jessica Love for Kellogg Insight. Its about 12 minutes long. Here’s one bit I liked: We go around in our lives and we collect information about what we...
https://cheaptalk.org/2013/09/05/me-and-sandeep-on-a-podcast-about-sunk-costs/
The other day I heard this chef talking on the radio about dropping lobsters into boiling water. The question was whether this or any other method of cooking live lobster was humane. Specifically...
https://cheaptalk.org/2013/01/22/blogging-something-i-know-nothing-about-7/
Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds’ nests and when the cuckoo chick is born it kicks all of the eggs out of the nest and monopolizes the care and attention of the cuckolded parent. Fairy w...
I remember a commercial for some kind of diet program where that was the tagline. A disembodied hand kept enticing this poor guy with delicious looking food and then taking it away because it w...
https://cheaptalk.org/2012/10/24/if-it-tastes-good-it-has-to-be-bad-for-you/
You must watch Balasz Szentes’ talk at the Becker Friedman Institute. At the very least, watch up until about 7:00. You will not regret it. (Note that Gary Becker was sitting in the front row.)
https://cheaptalk.org/2012/09/27/balasz-szentes-peacock-talk/
Because of runners’ high: When people exercise aerobically, their bodies can actually make drugs — cannabinoids, the same kind of chemicals in marijuana. Raichlen wondered if other distance-r...
Dawkins couldn’t be more dull when he is playing the heretic. When he is excoriating heretics, on the other hand, he is sharp as a tack: Misunderstanding Number One, which is also perpetrated...
https://cheaptalk.org/2012/05/31/richard-dawkins-weighs-in-on-e-o-wilsons-group-selection/