BBC News - Lord Mayor of Leicester apologises for trouser drop

BBC News - Lord Mayor of Leicester apologises for trouser drop: "Leicester's lord mayor has apologised after his trousers fell down during an educational event for schoolchildren."

Six of the most common intuitive errors

Six of the most common intuitive errors:

• inattentional blindness (failing to see things that are in plain sight);
• the belief that our memories are more reliable than they are;
• the tendency to think someone is competent if they are confident;
• the illusion of knowledge (we know much less than we think);
• the assumption that things that occur together must be causally related (think MMR vaccine and autism);
• and the increasingly popular notion that cognitive exercises make us smarter (in fact, physical exercise has a much stronger effect).