For Arbor Day, the story of the Tree of 40 Fruit, a real tree in Syracuse, New York that shows just how many different fruit you can graft onto a single tree.
The sunk-cost fallacy - when we keep at something even when it’s really not worth it anymore, just because we’ve already put so much time or effort in - is a part of human nature. But new research shows it's also a part of the nature of - this is the best part - video game playing monkeys.
Those nefarious bandwidth thieves know that it will take more than a simple promise of "p*a*r*i*s" to get our attention. Thus, they send us what appears to be completely incomprehensible poetry.