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Last month, a single Pokemon card sold for $16.492 million. Keep in mind, this is a piece of paper with ink on it that cost almost nothing to make. So why is that one card so valuable? Well, it's unique, well preserved, and it has an important place in the history of Pokemon. But ultimately, the card is worth all those millions because someone decided to pay all those millions for it. In an auction, the value of something is simply the highest amount someone decides to pay fo

I almost never listen to podcasts. But when I came back from basketball on Tuesday, my wife was listening to one that I got interested in. It was a Christian archeologist very seriously talking about giants, demons, aliens, and secret military labs. I ended the podcast feeling very disturbed. While I am unsure of the existence of these things (except for demons, those are real!) to even seriously consider the possibility of these things is unsettling to say the least. The ide

Let's pretend that you are a happy housewife. Your husband, who is amazing, works a great job just a block away. Because you are madly in love, you like to pop in to visit him at work. At some point, he firmly asks you to stop popping in at work because he needs to stay focused. You love, trust, and respect your husband, so of course you honor the boundary he is requesting. Then one day, a complete stranger shows up and says: "the real reason your husband doesn't want you com