READ WITH CAUTION: YOU MAY BECOME EXTREMELY SELF-AWARE Imagine that our brains are made up of a huge network of roads diverging and converging in all directions, with each road leading to different decisions. It can be really confusing for our racing thoughts to know which way to go. In order to avoid the long winding roads, our mind likes to take shortcuts through the help of cognitive biases . To be exact, cognitive biases are systematic errors in thinking that influence ou

Anyone who’s walked up to the fourth floor math corridor will recognize the colorful paintings that adorn those walls. But have you ever taken a closer look? The first time I did, I froze in my tracks. The paintings were by Mrs Vaze, my own math teacher! It was like discovering her secret double life, yet it made perfect sense - Mrs Vaze is the type of teacher who loves adding mathematical story interludes to our classes, whether it’s about how the Pythagoras theorem was NOT