lwinkler

> Can anyone recommend A Beautiful Mind, i'm kinda put off by the description in here which makes it sound very hollywoodised [2]?

It is quite holliwoodised indeed. As I recall there is not much about the work of Nash in there and a lot about his illness, love life, ... The only part with any maths is the protagonist writing equations on walls.

Please don't put Switzerland in Scandinavia. It is not the same as Sweden.

A really nice article. I always wonder about the psychology of dishonest people and I really like the explanation about the brain filling the gap for the cheating person.

In a related question I always though that there was a complex relation between the feeling of honesty and a dishonest behavior.

Example 1: Crook says: "Well of course buy my product." ("I know that it is a lie but you will buy it because you are a sucker")

Example 2: Crook says: "Well of course buy my product." ("Ok. It might not be the best product on the market but I am an honest man doing a hard job and I have kids to feed")

I am sure that you see a lot more of the 2nd type of crook in our world.

EDIT: The idea is of course that very few people lie deliberately and most of us do it with some kind of justification. Honest people might lie because they may think that they deserve more.

I don't quite get your point. America did not make an intervention in Tunisia. However you are right, better leave the country choose their own way.