Category: finance

  • Higher Price Makes Cheap Wine Taste Better

    Obvious stated, still fascinating. Mind Hacks: Higher price makes cheap wine taste better: A new brain scanning study has supported what we’ve suspected all along, more expensive wine tastes better partly because we expect it to. […] What the volunteers didn’t know was that there were only three different wines, and two of them were…

  • Furniture Knock Offs as Copyright Theft

    With two of my main interests being personal finance and copyrights (and wrongs), I always get giddy when the two collide. Recently, Plonkee made me think: is condoning (buying) knock off furniture comparable to condoning copyright theft? There are quite a few people who get quite passionate about the undesirability of knock offs. Check out…