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Just how many people are you, anyway?
There's a lot going on in your brain that you aren't aware of. Enough thinking to accomodate a second 'person'? Psychology experiments give us a good reason to think that there are multiple streams of...
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Are the most important things in life free?
If there’s one thing an economist loves to spot, it is a trade-off. A trade-off puts us on familiar terrain and let’s us feel (not for the first time) that undergraduate microeconomics can make order...
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Beeminding your way to greatness
Ever had a long term goal you wanted to achieve, like publishing a paper, getting fit or maintaining a blog, that you always put off and never actually got done? You and me both! I’m not sure whether...
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What do smoking and cleaning have in common?
There are four possible effects a habit can have on someone’s preferences that I would like to distinguish. For convenience I have labelled them appreciation, satisfaction, dependency and addiction....
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Our missing imagined lives
I have recently been working through the HBO series Six Feet Under and highly recommend you do the same. It is the best television I have watched since The Sopranos and deals with issues in ways that...
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