
Art by Yoshitoshi Abe





Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions.


This Thursday, January 15th, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River. The crash was very widely publicized by the US press. I would like to mention one interesting phenomenon that might affect cognition of people after this event. Read the rest of this entry ?


Left Side: Italian, Right Side: Foreigner
“Skin comes in many colors. Blood one only” (Source)


Since the end of 2005, there have been more than 100 cases of mothers murdering their own children, including six this September alone. Read the rest of this entry ?