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...Drazen Prelec) has rather convincingly shown that money given in different forms can have fundamentally different effects. For example, imagine that you have just finished a delicious dinner for two and it is time to pay the $100 bill. You open your wallet and are faced with your options: cash or credit? The reality is that no matter which option you choose, you will pay the same amount. But paying with a credit card feels very different than paying with cash—it is somewhat less painful...

Author: By Dan Ariely | Title: Irrational Economic Policies | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...think you’re happy doing what you’re doing. I don’t think you need to go to law school,’” Block recalled. “And I said ‘but I really like the option...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Melissa Block | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...think any of it would happen,” Hudlin wrote of his success in a recent e-mail. “But if I didn’t make it, I would probably end up in a job that required a tie. And that was not an option...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reginald Hudlin | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...more than 9,000 sushi restaurants in the U.S. There's also the possibility that someday the exploding global population and the damage of climate change could bring about the collapse of our resource-intensive food supply. "At that point," notes Gracer, "insects could become a pretty attractive option...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Bugs | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

Years later, Ayers threw a fund-raising party for Obama. They sat together on the board of a community group. Is this association between Obama and these dangerous radicals a scandal? Or is the scandal digging up all this ancient history? Those have been the options in the debate. But the truth is a third option: Ayers and Dohrn are despicable, and yet making an issue of Obama's relationship with them is absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rejecting Obama's Radical Friends | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

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