The best way to take a football penalty is to shoot straight down the middle as goal-keepers tend to move to their right or to their left. At least that’s the conclusion of a group of economists who studied penalty-taking in the French and Italian leagues using a branch of mathematics called (perhaps appropriately) game [...]
How can daydreaming be beneficial to you? For instance can it help you to rehearse the changes you want to make in your life? Be a good stress reliever, or simply give you a break from a tedious, monotonous job? The answer is all those things. Daydreaming helps you to imagine future events or remember past ones. [...]
Imagine you are a contestant in a “Let’s make a deal” game. There are 3 doors to choose from: yellow, blue, and red. You choose the yellow door. One of the doors you didn’t pick is opened, let’s say the red door, to reveal no prize. You now have a choice. Stick with yellow? Or [...]
“Living together apart” seems to be a popular choice these days, whether to maximise benefits payments or so you can have breathing space to do your own thing. But I wonder how far apart you can actually get with text messaging, skyping, not to mention tweeting and face-book! So what are the reasons people can’t [...]
