Part of the Christmas Spirit is the Secret Santa game, or known as the “Secret Friend” in other places (such as Venezuela, where I grew up). I guess all of you know how it works, but just for those who don’t here is the main idea: a group of people decide to play the game, [...]

Let’s be honest. Many of us don’t do all what is in our hands to help the environment. Why? It is just another 5 minutes? We just need to separate paper and glass from the trash and put it in different containers, and then take the trash to the trash disposal, and the recyclable items [...]

So, what is it about online dating that is sometimes controversial or awkward? Well, I don’t know. But sometimes one thinks about online dating as something associated with people for whom is difficult to find a partner through “conventional” methods. And this is sometimes associated with people who is ugly or non-friendly or any combination [...]

Some of the readers of my previous post about tolls efficiency have commented about a new policy in the I-95 Highway in Miami area that have more or less some similarities with my ideas about efficiency in tolls.

My loyal reader with the nickname “Anonymous” (I still don’t know if he choose that nickname or he [...]

Thanksgiving weekend is one of the most (if not the one) busiest travel weekend in the year in the United States. This is the main lesson I learned during the first Thanksgiving ever I spent in this country.

Together with my friend MR we drove from Providence to Philadelphia Wednesday night, before thanksgiving began. We hardly [...]

This is a commercial of the 013 Barak Telecommunications company in Israel. I hope you will enjoy it as I did.

PS: The subtitles at the very end mean: “In real life, this is still not possible. But over the internet, links like these are created on a daily basis”.

I was talking the other day over the phone with my good friend “A”, and he told me how he saw the convoy of the President of the United States passing through the streets around his office. All the streets were closed, and of course, traffic jams were all around.

So, I told him about the [...]

Well, yes, I know what your first thoughts are. There is no way we can explain relationships with economic science. But let me tell you what I think. As in my first post, everybody acts on a rational way, seeing his own set of information, and having their own incentives to achieve a better utility… [...]

Economists often refer to an equilibrium called ‘Poverty Trap’ – which is an scenario in which people experience poverty because of facts that are out of their control – thus, staying poor forever.

Without getting too much into the economics, I wanted to share with you an ‘alternative’ explanation of this phenomenon, which I saw in [...]

I found this in JFK Airport in New York City… An automated iPod selling machine…

Believe it or not…