But they write very entertaining, intriguing books. “The Game” is one of those. It will disgust you by revealing a dark, seedy side of men–that which responds to sexual failure and social shunning with an array of clever but misogynist techniques designed to lure women into bed with them by making [...]

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“From Bailouts to Beer Summits” skewers the President using his own words
Two longtime friends spent hundreds of hours reading virtually every word that President Barack Obama ever has written, watching scores of his YouTube videos, and fighting over which Joe Biden gaffes transcend mere hilarity and rise to the realm of true [...]

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There’s a deadly epidemic raging and you have the power to choose between two treatments, (1) in which 1/3rd patients of the patients will certainly survive and (2) in which 66.7 percent of the patients will certainly die. Which would you choose? The first one right? If you’re savvy, you’ll see [...]

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Imagine the charter city of Ur in which there are no taxes, no forced regulation, and no laws except one—harm no one. It would be a libertarian paradise—a productive, free-market utopia with no equal on Earth. But would it work? Would people behave or fall into a chaotic dog-eat-dog arena in which the strong would [...]

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In the style of the great recent behavioral economics books like Predictably Irrational and Stumbling on Happiness, authors Chris and Dan review the fascinating findings of studies that show we humans think we know what’s going on around us but really have no clue. They start off with their famous study showing [...]

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