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• Nasty surprises, or - what would Jesus do

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  My mom and I frequent visitors at the eye clinic. Or clinics, I should say, because weve been at it for years. Cataract when she was young, which left her with glasses as thick as the bottoms of beer bottles, if not thicker, without which she can barely see. And now, for ages, she has acute glaucoma. So acute that the ...
  18 hours ago

• Think outside the box: ten outrageous predictions for 2010

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 658
  Think outside the box: ten outrageous predictions for 2010 is a post from: Credit Writedowns Just like last year, I am going to present the list of ten outrageous predictions from Denmark’s Saxo Bank.  When I presented the list in 2008, I gave the following disclaimer: Their list is outlandish — and I’ll ...
  20 hours ago

• Everybody Wins When Children Play Less

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  In his post, Stop That Runaway Train!, Jim Taylor, writes to parents, "Your challenge is to recognize how this runaway train called family life is hurting your family." His advice is well-founded and helpful. Theres one important message I want to add: The real risk of injury and burnout to child and adolescent ...
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• BEYOND BAD BODY LANGUAGE: DC COP BRINGS A GUN TO A SNOWBALL FIGHT

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
     *** Special Report That Could Save Your Professional Life*** The last time Washington, DC was hit with such a heavy snowstorm was in the winter of 2002. My husband and I had just started dating.  He lived on Capital Hill, so the two of us bundled up and walked to a local restaurant called Tunnicliffs at ...
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• Externally self-motivated: A winding tale of love, unemployment, evolution, theology, apples, and oranges.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  My writing drives some people crazy because I make big jumps from one topic to another. One minute Im talking romance, the next Im talking the origins of life.  I aim to edit for smooth transitions but theres a bigger problem than prose styling.  Ive invested decades in research that trains my mind to follow ...
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• Does Genius Bloom in Individuals or in Groups?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Wikipedia has shown the power of group genius. When people put their many minds together, they often reach a precision or breadth of ideas more quickly than individuals can. Another good example of the power of collective genius came this year, when British mathematician Timothy Gowers proposed to solve an elusive ...
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• MERRY FRICKMAS: Maximize Your Visual Information Channel & Transform Cubic Zirconia Relationships into Diamond Relationships

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
   I. THE ROADBLOCK The hidden challenges and detours lurking within our professional and personal lives that hold us back from reaching the potential that we are perfectly capable of achieving  II. THE FAST LANE TO GETTING WHAT YOU WANT Non-verbal communication case studies, experiments, and strategies that give ...
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• Why Kant Was Smarter Than Behavioral Economists

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 573
  by Mario Rizzo   Behavioral economists who like to indulge in normative pronouncements have decided that quasi-hyperbolic discounting violates rationality. In other words, suppose a person decides today that he will give up the hamburgers he loves beginning in 2010 (because of the high fat content). But then when ...
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• Crypticism Reveals a New Rule of Persuasion!

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Reason metaphorically with me.  Consider concepts and clichés, propositions and prepositions, images and imaginations, then cross the bridges. The classic scientific cliché for discovery is Isaac Newton sitting under a tree, watching a falling apple, and experiencing a eureka moment that ends with gravity and ...
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• Did Tiger Woods kill off the golden goose of athlete endorsements?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  With the revelations that Tiger Woods may be a roboathlete, but “all too human” are we watching the end of the era of “athlete as hero?” An athlete who performs well under pressure is not the same as a hero who performs well and does the right thing under pressure.  Fame and money does not a hero ...
  5 days ago

• Strategies for Bargain Hunting: Lessons from the Octopus

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Scientists have discovered that the veined octopus Amphioctopus marginatus "stilt walks" across the sea floor while carrying a pair of split coconut shells under its body, like an overloaded shopper triumphantly carrying an armload of bargains. The image was so striking that the snorkeling researchers had some ...
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• Hitting Your Financial Bottom

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  We know better, but we just cant seem to stop. Sound familiar? It does if you have ever struggled with a substance use disorder, overeating, or any other self-destructive behavior that gets out of control and leads to negative life consequences. Many of us reach a point where we know these behaviors are hurting us, ...
  6 days ago

• Why is it so hard to shop for others?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  There are lots of stresses during the holiday season. You may have to prepare to spend time with lots of family. You may have to get your home ready for an invasion of guests. On top of everything else, you are expected to go out and buy lots of gifts. And despite all of the jokes about regifting, none of us wants ...
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• Philosophy and Rational Irrationality, by Bryan Caplan

  
  EconLog — Authority: 697
  Now that Robin knows what philosophers think , he likes them more .  I recently received a thoughtful email from Ph.D. philosophy student Matthew Skene that makes the opposite case.  Heres the full message, reprinted with permission. My name is Matt Skene, andIm a graduate student in philosophy at Syracuse ...
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• When Will the Duggars Stop?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
   "Whats the last thing people want in a recession? More kids, apparently." Asked and answered in a Time magazine article earlier this year, "What Sells in a Recession: Canned Goods and Condoms." Of course, this doesnt apply to the Duggars. They had their 19th child, Josie Brooklyn, a few days ago. With 18 ...
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• Love, work, play: Physics, organism, organization and romance in a nutshell

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Meg, a single woman in San Francisco had her habits and routines. She did yoga after work pretty much every day.  Some nights she got together with friends; other nights she stayed home and watched videos or read. Her friends introduced her to Mark, a single guy from Oakland about ten miles away. Like Meg he ...
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• i envy envIO

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Wow.  Over 100,000 apps for the iPhone.  How can you possibly find the next killer app needle in that haystack?  How about Chorus ? "Chorus, which is developed by envIO Networks, is sort of like a mobile social network based around the apps that your friends have downloaded. The app features real-time feeds from ...
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• Menu Engineering

  
  Donald Marron — Authority: 538
  Earlier in the semester, my students bravely endured the usual microeconomic approach to understanding consumer choice. You know: budget constraints, indifference curves, and tangencies. Very useful when deployed appropriately, but rather abstract. To lighten things up—and illustrate some important truths about how ...
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• Trust Me: Why Ponzi Schemes Work

  
  Bozo Sapiens — Authority: 92
  His website said: "The owners name is on the door. Clients know that Bernard Madoff has a personal interest in maintaining the unblemished record of value, fair-dealing, and high ethical standards that has always been the firms hallmark." Can it have been only a year ago? The story still sounds as unlikely as every ...
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• Who Says Money Can’t Buy Happiness?

  
  Step Into The Spotlight! — Authority: 118
  So, I’m freezing. It’s cold up here in igloo country in December. So I decide on a spot of tea, boil the water and pull out my cache of “too good to let the kids use to stain paper for history projects” tea. Instantly I know which one I’m going to choose. I’ve had a [...]
  1 week ago

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