Teaching kids to gamble

I do a workshop of couple of hours each summer with kids who have finished their Standard Grades (GCSEs in England, i.e they are 16) and ar...

Is "Risk Intelligence" a dangerous concept?

At a time when there is an emphasis on inter disciplinary research, it is not that useful to divide science into separate categories.  Ho...

A banker, a pharmacist and physicist walk into a pub .... and pay $3 billion

One of my favourite jokes:  "I make all the big decisions at home - what our policy on Iran, Chinese exchange rates and the Eurozone cr...