Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist and managing director of Thiel Capital. In a recent interview with Rebel Wisdom, Weinstein spoke about the origins of the Intellectual Dark Web, and his theory of how our institutions are plagued by an

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Social class in England during the Victorian era had much less to do with wealth than with your assigned station at birth -upward mobility was as rare as hen’s teeth. Sophia Jarvis was a working class orphan who was sent to a workhouse and later an

The American poker player, Phil Ivey, ten-time World Series Poker winner, lost his UK Supreme Court case to recover 7.7 million pounds ($10.2 million dollars) of winnings from Crockfords, a casino in London’s prime Mayfair district. Afterwards Ivey – known as the “Tiger Woods of poker” with $23

Awhile back, I posted about some research done on lying in children.  A very brief explanation of the study was that kids lied more often and more effectively when punishment was on the line.  Because so many children go through a lying phase, or more than a phase, I am writing this post to talk