Which animal kills more humans per year? Sharks or Hippopotamuses? And the winner is … …the river horse, a.k.a. Hippopotamus, with a tally of 500 to 2,900 lives per year. These beauties weigh about 8,000 pounds each and are capable of darting at 18 miles…
I believe people sometimes need an accountant with a whip next to them. Wuh-PSSSH! Whapshhh! Although for some of you, that may sound like a great idea (“yeah, give it to me!”), my take is that the majority of you would be…
Happy Money – The Science of Smarter Spending by Elizabeth Dunn & Michael Norton If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness if you…
Numerous studies have shown that money makes happy up to an inflection point of between 40,000 to 70,000 USD per year. I guess that is quite obvious since with that amount of money one’s basic needs can be met (depending on where…
Your brain often plays tricks on you and takes mental shortcuts. Nothing wrong with that per se. Our ancestors needed those shortcuts to decide in a split-second on fight or flight. Without those shortcuts, our race never would have survived. In our modern…
Why you should be Taking Care Of Your Own Business or why you should Tacomob. Hi, my name is Andy. What motivated me to create this website? Well, sometimes, one can observe a lot by watching. I observed that we tend…
Also known as the “I knew it all along” effect. Hindsight bias refers to our tendency to take facts now known and interpret them in a way that explains past events. In retrospect everything seems clear and inevitable. This is a…
When it comes to mathematical functions, the human brain can easily comprehend “Linear Function or Simple Interest”, but we are genetically unfit to comprehend “Exponential Function or Compound Interest” and its massive impact years down the road. When it comes to interest…