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Articles at The Times (of London) now sit behind a paywall: two bucks a day or four bucks a week; The New York Times is building a paywall as you […]
Online dating is “an incredibly unsatisfying experience,” says Duke behavioral economics professor Dan Ariely, the author of “Predictably Irrational.” In fact, his research has found that each date you set […]
We’ve covered variousdesignsolutions for the vision-impaired. But what about the hearing-impaired? While the sight is visual in nature and thus more organically linked to design, can the auditory sense be […]
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The size of the Jewish community in America is a quantum leap from what it is in any European country—and its sheer scale makes it more “exciting.”
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The modern incarnation of anti-Jewish sentiment is “demonic anti-Zionism,” which is focused on Israel, rather than on Jews as individuals.
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Jews have developed a negative self-image in the wake of the Holocaust, defining themselves as a people apart, nature’s victims.
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The U.K.’s top rabbi hopes to make the country’s Jewish voice “much more self-confident and willing to engage with the world.”
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A conversation with the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom.
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If people are able to work fewer hours in the labor market, it means they can take that freed up time and begin meeting their needs in new ways that […]
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As a society, we need to invest in areas and activities that we’ve been neglecting: our communities, our families, and our planet.
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A conversation with the Boston College sociologist and economist.
"Corruption has marred every aspect of Somali society," says Afyare Abdi Elmi, a professor of International Affairs. It is, he says, the most corrupt country in the world.
Personalities are typically thought to be genetically determined; not so, says the New Scientist: "We may learn our personalities, and adjust them to situations we find ourselves in over time."
"Scientists are trying to regulate the weather with ambitious experiments that may even tackle global warming. Is this a great step forward?" The Independent looks at the strangest of these ideas.
The author of a new book on race begins with a controversial hypotheses: it was desegregation that destroyed thriving black schools and created a culture of underperformance.
"New research finds that attractive people in the business world or academia may be at a disadvantage when they’re evaluated by a member of the same sex." More at Miller-McCune.
The language police at Salon lament the rise of "No problem" over "Thank you" because, they say, the former shrugs off bonds created by social interaction instead of affirming them.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom gives five reasons why we need not fear the rise of China. Among them: "Some of the really scary things about China have U.S. parallels," such as environmental disregard, he says.
Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics and law at Columbia, dispels five common myths about free trade such as, "Free trade may increase economic prosperity, but it is bad for the working class."