When my students grow too dependent on their calculators, I ask them to find a number that, when multiplied by itself, gives them 2. Students quickly see that since 1² = 1 and 2² = 4, the answer has ...

Part Two of Two In a previous post, we considered three of seven "irrational" habits of highly rational people. Here we consider the remaining four, as well as some suggestions for distinguishing the ...

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Eugene Fama, Lars Hansen, and Robert Shiller mainly "for their empirical analysis of asset prices.” But the differences between Fama and Shiller on the ...

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is an established cognitive-behavioural intervention centred on identifying and challenging irrational beliefs that contribute to emotional disturbances.

In a recent discussion about gun control on Thom Hartmann’s program, my opponent suggested that gun control advocates like me really have a cultural aversion to guns. That’s a standard ploy for the ...

In a previous post, we considered three of seven "irrational" habits of highly rational people. Here we consider the remaining four, as well as some suggestions for distinguishing the genuinely ...