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Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart
Many Americans can’t remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating and the rich are pulling away. It feels inevitable. But it’s not.
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4 rituals proven by neuroscience to make you happy
You get all kinds of happiness advice on the internet from people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Don’t trust them. Trust neuroscience.
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Octopus research shows that consciousness isn’t what makes humans special
Whether or not octopuses should be viewed as charming or terrifying very much depends on your personal perspective. But it’s hard to deny their intelligence. Octopuses can squirt water at an annoyingly bright bulb until it short-circuits. They can tell humans apart (even those who are wearing the same uniform). And, according to Peter Godfrey-Smith, a philosophy professor at University of Sydney and City University of New York, they are the closest creature to an alien here on earth.
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Stop Managing Your Time And Start Owning it
Time is the raw material of getting anything worthwhile done.
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5 psychological experiments that show just how dark humanity can be.
The Asch experiment (1953) - The Good Samaritan Experiment (1973) - Bystander Apathy Experiment (1968) - The Stanford Prison Experiment (1971) - The Milgram Experiment (1961)
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Toddler Tantrum Costs a Family Everything—Including Their Kids
An evening last November started out like any other for Mary*. But a parenting decision she made set off a spiral of events that will forever mark her family's stories about life with a toddler and a newborn. They'll look back on these days with mixed feelings, never forgetting the sheer terror and feelings of helplessness watching strangers walk away with her sons, one of whom was a nursing newborn.
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How to slam dunk creationists when it comes to the theory of evolution
Playing to the intelligent design mob, Mike Pence is simply spinning words in his war on evolutionary biology
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Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide
A surprising new proof is helping to connect the mathematics of infinity to the physical world.
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Are We Doomed? Let’s Have a Talk.
My most recent essay, in which I discussed a highly publicized controversy over the efficacy of plans for a comprehensive transition to an all-renewable energy future, garnered some strong responses. “If you are right,” one Facebook commenter opined, “we are doomed. Fortunately you are not right.” (The commenter didn’t explain why.) What had I said to provoke an expectation of cataclysmic oblivion?
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Want to Accomplish More in Less Time? 9 Things the Most Effective People Always Do
Execution is everything. Here's how you can execute at a much higher level, each and every day.
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The Evolution of Trust
an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other
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A Very Modern Map of Britain's Ancient Roman Roads
Let's take the VII from Londinium to Letocetum.
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What more evidence do we need to stop killing pigs for food?
That pigs are smart and sensitive is not in doubt. How can we justify continuing to kill them for food?
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Don’t Overthink. Do.
Don’t Overthink. Do. Balancing thought and action will always be a challenge for many people. When you spend too much time picturing what a project is going to be like, too much time thinking about how awesome it will be… and too little time actually making the thing, you make no progress.
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How the CIA toppled Iranian democracy
The US wanted to 'manage' Iran in the Cold War.
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Ideology, Not Tactics, Killed Trumpcare
Republicans couldn't come up with a good plan in seven years because a Republican health care bill is an oxymoron.
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Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail
Prosecution of white-collar crime is at a twenty-year low.
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Toto - Africa
Toto's official music video for 'Africa'.
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Men At Work - Down Under
Men At Work's official music video for 'Down Under'.
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Why there’s no such thing as a gifted child
Even Einstein was unexceptional in his youth. Now a new book questions our fixation with IQ and says adults can help almost any child become gifted
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21 Genuinely Impressive MS Paint Drawings
Whoa. I'm actually impressed.
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Commented in Disturbing video shows teens filming, mocking man as he drowns
There’s that poor man, in a picture frame. There’re those kids, standing in front of that picture frame, being callous, glib, and jeering on social media about it. They’re in a picture frame, too and you’re regarding it, judgy like them and publicly coy about it, like them. Outside of that in another picture frame, me, doing just the same, so I’m part of this cycle as much as you are. Outside that, like a reflection of a reflection, a regress of people winding out so far we lose sight of the central tragedy, the drowning victim, and are instead left with a miasma of the inability to put oneself in another’s position.
I don’t believe judgment comes from a wee man on a big throne in the clouds. I don’t believe real judgment comes from the courts any more than it does from public opinion or the authors of history or even feckless idiot bystanders to tragedy like these kids. That moment, for that man? That’s about his judgment. Not ours. As we look on in our respective reference frames, we can lose sight of it.
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The Importance of Being an Unhappy Teenager
Being unhappy is never wholly to be recommended, but if there is any period of life in which if the mood may be justified and in certain ways important, then it is roughly between the ages of 13 and 20. It is hard to imagine going on to have a successful or even somewhat contented next six decades if one has not been the beneficiary of a good deal of agonising introspection and intense dislocation in this span.
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We may have cracked the mystery of Stonehenge
The more archaeologists study Stonehenge, the more mysteries unfold. But a coherent story is beginning to emerge.
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Crossword lovers have brains which are 10 years younger than their age, study finds
If completing the Telegraph crossword is a daily tradition then it may be gratifying to learn that your brain is 10 years younger than your actual age. Researchers at the University of Exeter and King’s College London carried online testing on more than 17,000 healthy people aged 50 to gauge their memory, attention and reasoning.
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Did You Know The English Language Has A Secret Brother?
You may want to sit down for this because you are about to find out your Germanic mother gave birth to another language in the North of the Netherlands.
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You can't even text and walk
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The Ultimate, Plain English Guide To Blockchain You Have Always Been Looking For
Unlike every other post on the internet, instead of first defining the Blockchain, we’ll understand the problem it solves.
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The cholesterol and calorie hypotheses are both dead — it is time to focus on the real culprit:...
Emerging evidence shows that insulin resistance is the most important predictor of cardiovascular and type 2 diabetes.
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Under siege by liberals: the town where everyone owns a gun
There’s an empty stretch of field off highway 141 in Colorado that used to be the perfect American town. Small houses with white picket fences boasted big flower gardens. Kids played kick the can in the streets, rode their bikes, splashed in swimming pools. On Sundays, they might have watched an Elvis movie on TV. The rent was cheap, the fathers all worked, the mothers stayed at home.
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