Some online shops have made it especially easy to shop with a one-click buying process. Most major retailers offer free shipping, and only one in ten consumers return stuff they've bought online.

Americans are also taking up more space with all the stuff they are amassing. Self-storage unit...

• They say age is just a number. Rich people and health nuts spend billions in an effort to move the expiration date from around seventy-eight to hopefully forever.
• The number of years we manage to eke out doesn't matter, only what those years are composed of. Seneca put it b...

“We all suffer from many biases. We suffer from confirmation bias, selection bias, negativity bias, recency bias, gender bias, optimism bias, etc. These biases are normal, but they are also dangerous. The most dangerous bias we face is our innate privileging of the past. We elevate the past and g...