“It is not my aim to surprise or shock you – but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are now in the world machines that think, that learn, and that create. Moreover, their ability to ...

Feel free to celebrate explorers who found shorter routes from here to there. Marvel at feats of engineering that significantly reduced travel and shipping time. But think carefully and scrutinize ...

The gambler's fallacy is the opposite of recency bias. It occurs when you start believing that because a certain result happened more frequently in the past, there's a higher probability a different ...

Political here does not refer to the sort of partisan nonsense that is ripping representative democracies apart at the seams. Rather, it refers to organizational politics – the sort of nonsense that, ...

The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain | RealClearScienceI am staring at a photograph of myself that shows me 20 years older than I am now. I have not stepped into the twilight zone. Rather, I am ...

Even if you’ve never heard of the planning fallacy, you’ve likely experienced it. It’s a phenomenon in which a person or team underestimates how long a task will take and what it will cost in money or ...

Humans are not as wise as the word ‘sapiens’ suggests. We commit mistakes, and alas, in a very predictable manner. The study of systematic biases and errors that creep into everyday human behaviour ...