There is voluminous evidence that exclusive reliance on heuristic processing tendencies of Type I sometimes results in suboptimal responding (Baron, 2008; Evans, 2007a; Gilovich, Griffin, & Kahneman, 2002; Johnson-Laird, 2006; Kahneman & Tversky, 1973, 1996,...

But you can’t fault me on my footnotes. I’ve worked hard on them and they look pretty impressive. And almost all the sources I quote actually exist. I must confess, however, that the idea of...

Meaning ‘by way of the anus’. ‘Per Annum’, with two n’s, means ‘yearly’. The correct answer to the question, ‘What is the birthrate per anum?’ is zero (one hopes).

The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way, then the often narrow thread of text above...

I want to write a book about shoes that’s full of footnotes.