A Cup of Knowledge: With Guests A.J. Jacobs &...

This is a special feature from the Choiceology archives. Right now, prediction markets, pollsters, and data analysts are working overtime. But predicting the future—especially in high-stakes environments—is notoriously hard. Most of us ignore critical data and place too much conf ...  Show more

Think about the habits that define your day-to-day life—how you manage your money, look after your health, or tackle your to-do list. You might assume they reflect your personality or upbringing. But what if they’re actually shaped by the language you speak?In this episode of Cho ...  Show more

Why don’t rockets fly straight up? What’s really happening when you make toast? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice break down the science of making toast, boiling water, and the Brachristochrone problem. 

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How literally should we take the US Constitution? What about the bible? Should we experiment with radical honesty with strangers? Those are just some of the questions human guinea pig A.J. Jacobs spends his life trying to answer. An author and journalist, he regularly immerse ...

Why are the numbers 1, 2, and 3 across the top of a phone keypad but across the bottom of a calculator? It’s not random — and once you hear the logic, you’ll never look at a keypad the same way again. That’s just one of three quirky mysteries I explain at the start of this episod ...  Show more