Jill Neimark

Jill Neimark is a veteran science journalist and author of adult and children's fiction. A former contributing editor at Discover Magazine, she has also written for Scientific American, Science, Nautilus, Aeon, The New York Times, NPR, Quartz, Psychology Today, The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review, Borderlands, The Massachusetts Review, Cimarron Review, and Construction Literary Magazine.

Tue, 02/09/2021 - 12:03
Why We Stick With Unsuccessful Tasks: It’s EvolutionaryMonkeys, like humans, persist at tasks they’ve already invested in—even when they don’t succeed
Tue, 02/09/2021 - 12:03
If you’ve ever stayed in a relationship too long or stuck with a project that was going nowhere, you’re not alone. Humans are generally reluctant to give up on something they’ve already committed time and effort to. It’s called the “sunk costs”…