Non-cooperative game theory is at its heart a theory of cognition, specifically a theory of how decisions are made. Game theory's leverage is that we can design different payoffs, settings, player arrays, action possibilities, and information structures, and that these differences lead to different strategies, outcomes, and equilibria. It is well-known that, in experimental settings, people do ...

The current healthcare debate has brought up basic questions about how medicine should work. On one hand we have the medical establishment, with its enormous cadre of M.D.s, medical schools, Big Pharma, and incredibly expensive hospital care. On the other, we have the semi-condoned field of alternative medicine that attracts millions of patients a year and embraces literally thousands of treatm...

Our analytical catalogue contains information on many thousands of folklore and mythological texts. The systemic approach to this material argues in favor an African origin episodes images that were recorded sub-Saharan Africa, the Indo-Pacific border Asia America but are absent continental Eurasia. Such a pattern corresponds genetic archaeological data concerning early spread modern human from...