Dan Ariely spoke at the Town Hall lecture series a few weeks ago. Very entertaining stuff.

This post reviews his book, Predictably Irrational, which I have not read. The book, and his talk, are all about how people behave in ways that seem irrational at first examination ( Read more... )

10 Ways We Get The Odds Wrong

About a week ago I downloaded the audio of a lecture entitled "How to Do Precisely the Right Thing at All Possible Times" (23MB mp3, 50 minutes), by Daniel Gilbert ( Read more... )