Ecstasy and Verbal Memory

A study in JAMA found a correlation between ecstasy use and difficulty remembering words.[The doctors] recruited 188 volunteers (average age 22) who had not used Ecstasy but reported that they were likely to try it soon. Within three years of the initial evaluations,...

Traveler’s Dilemma

From the Freakonomics Blog:This month in Scientific American, Cornell economics professor Kaushik Basu revisits his twist on the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma. Called the Traveler’s Dilemma, the game involves two travelers who find that identical belongings of theirs...