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Featured image: Eneas De Triya/Flickr CC BY 2.0 Sometimes, when facing dilemmas that oppose means and ends, rather than confronting their complexity, we resort to the strategic invocation of a principle to resolve the tension Last weekend, Nicolás Maduro,…

(Featured image: (photo: Matt Madd/Flickr Our lives are steered by rules, perhaps more than we realize.

Featured photo: Geek2Nurse/Flickr CC BY NC 2.0 If we’re honest, we’d have to admit that sometimes, when giving gifts to others, we take into account the effect on us too.

It is not unusual for majority opinions to be unrecognized, even by members of the majority.

Featured image: Angélica Portales/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Decisions to save small amounts of money or time (in absolute terms) are often guided by intuition.

<ivf-2.jpg> (Featured image: Image Editor/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0) Genetic screening enabling embryo selection based not just on predisposition for certain disorders, but also on mental and physical traits, means hard decisions for prospective parents “It’s

(featured photo: Allen Levine/Flickr PD) Might an economic concept explain our propensity to see conspiracies where there are none?

featured image: (Christopher Paulin/Flickr CC BY 2.0 + Zehra Soy/Pixabay Decisions have consequences – sometimes unintended and unforeseen ones.

(featured image by Photorama/Pixabay) Some decisions that boil down to either doing it, or not doing it, are on a knife edge.

Featured Image: Lon&Queta/Flickr (CC BY NC SA 2.0) Life is full of uncertainty… and we mostly don’t like it one bit.