the view from fanling

In 1999, two academics from Cornell University in the United States, Justin Kruger and David Dunning, published a paper in the Journal of Pe...

One of the recurring themes in the history of money is that every system for its creation and management contains within itself the seeds...

In the decades prior to their defeat by the British on the Plains of Abraham in 1759, the French ran a thriving colony in Quebec (‘New Franc...

How much reliance do you place on promises? Do you, for example, expect them to be kept? Before you answer, you might want to consider the f...