Traditional models of economic decision-making assume that people are self-interested rational maximizers. Empirical research has demonstrated, however, that people will take into account the interests of others and are sensitive to norms of cooperation and fairness. In one of the most robust tests of this finding, the ultimatum game, individuals will reject a proposed division […]
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Science isn’t…
A limited view of science What do you think science is? At dinner last night one of our lab demonstrators, who has a BSc (Honours), claimed that he got into science because he wanted to prolong life. Quality life, not life plagued with alzheimers, for example. Somewhere in his speech about long-life, money management and […]
Meteorite Illness
This story struck me as very strange. Something from a Sci-fi show… Many people are sick after visiting a possible meteor crater. Apparently the meteor hitting the earth can release nasty gases (from meteor chemicals reacting with something in the earth). When you hear that explanation it makes a bit more sense, and it doesn’t […]
Squabble – a Scrabble variation for Mac
My husband introduced me to this game the other day. It’s great! We love Scrabble. We own the board game and we play Scrabulous on Facebook. This variation reveals letters one by one and you have to make a word with them before the other person (or computer player) does. You can also steal words […]
Combing PDFs – another handy Automator trick
Why install a program when you already have one installed that does the job. Mac OS X Hints tells you how to combine PDFs using Automator. I found this really handy this morning and just had to share. 🙂
New Apple products!
Have you seen the new Apple products? They look pretty sweet – widescreen iPod nano, iPod classic and the iPod touch (like an iPhone without the phone). You can watch a high resolution version of the new iPod nano advert on the Apple website or this one from YouTube. Perhaps if I ever have some […]