Worsening political instability could provide more space to terrorist groups operating from inside the province and across ...

In a world beset by war, corruption, and environmental destruction, many assume that the greatest threat to humanity is evil ...

Before that, various approximations were given, such as the nice round number 3. Except, Maimonides, a Jewish physician and scholar, seems to have described pi's irrationality nearly a millennium ago.

Building on Caplan's (1999a, 1999b) model of "rational irrationality", the current paper maintains that the assumption of voter irrationality is both theoretically and empirically plausible. It then ...

A This idea of shared errors presents a bit of a puzzle. Usually when you see a strategy that’s shared between humans and primates, you assume that the strategy has been around for a long time. When ...

Robert Siegel talks to behavioral economist Dan Ariely about his new book, The Upside of Irrationality. The book is a follow-up to his New York Times best-seller, Predictably Irrational, in which ...

Nature Biotechnology - The irrationality precedentPublishing, even electronic publishing, is much too slow a process for the life sciences and their applications in biotech. In a keystroke ...

Boris Johnson says the Conservatives had an "outbreak of irrationality" when he was forced to quit as leader and Prime Minister. Listen to this article Loading audio... The former PM said his party ...