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  The 1.88-Million-Dollar Math Lesson: Why Buying More Lottery Tickets is Just a Tax on Innumeracy Humanity has spent centuries mastering ca...

  The 10-to-1 Trap: Why Forcing Yourself to Be Nice to Yourself (and Others) is Harder Than Doing Hard Time Humanity has spent centuries per...

The Illusion of Justice in the Small Claims Court The pursuit of justice is often less about finding a higher truth and more about navigatin...

  The Illusion of Expertise: Why Experts Make the Easiest Marks We have a dangerous superstition in modern society: we believe that knowledg...

  The Mirror of Flattery: How AI Is Turning Us into Narcissists A PhD student at Stanford noticed a disturbing trend among her peers: they w...

  The Tyranny of the Ledger: When Primal Entitlement Meets the Bureaucracy Human beings are hardwired to blame the landscape when they trip ...

  The Chemically Castrated Primate: Our Beautiful, Plastic Survival Human beings are, at their evolutionary core, obsessive nesting creature...

  The Skinner Box of the British Isles: Harvesting the Dopamine of Defeat Human beings are hardwired to seek patterns in chaos. In our evolu...

  The Ghost in the Machine: Why Your "Chinese" is Secretly English We like to pretend that modern Chinese is a direct descendant o...

  The Grand Rebranding: Manufacturing a Nation with Erasers At the turn of the 20th century, a group of frantic intellectuals looked at the ...

  The Roman Numeral Trap: When History Meets the Teleprompter It is a moment that satisfies every cynical bone in our collective bodies: a U...

  The Ghost in the Lecture Hall: Why We Fail to See the Gap We like to believe that progress is a ladder of increasing complexity. In our va...

  The Holy Grail of the Mediocre: Why the Masses Crave Simple Miracles The anatomy of a medical cult is less about the "Master" an...