About:Media — Speed Read: The Six Most Controversial Reza Aslan Claims About Jesus

By Lizzy Crocker, The Daily Beast, Tuesday Jul. 30, 2013 By now you have probably already seen one of the most embarrassing interviews in Fox News history: a Muslim scholar’s work is apparently disregarded purely because of his faith. When you sit down to read the book, however, you can see why some Christians have […]

Prediction Markets — Psychology Influences Markets

By Marcus Woo, California Institute of Technology, Monday July 1, 2013 Economists argue that markets usually reflect rational behavior—that is, the dominant players in a market, such as the hedge-fund managers who make billions of dollars’ worth of trades, almost always make well-informed and objective decisions. Psychologists, on the other hand, say that markets are […]