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Iran has announced its development of faster centrifuges for enriching uranium but the advance, while scientifically significant, may not alter the political landscape.
“If ants wrote a stage play for human characters, it would look like this,” writes Barbara Kingsolver of E.O. Wilson’s first novel, Anthill. In a powerhouse-eco-figures play, the New York […]
David Brooks’s New York Times column today—on humility in leadership—plays an elegant, if not uncommon, trick via the inversion of a simple pronoun. Once he starts to describe the “humble […]
In her short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” Ursula Le Guin imagines an almost utopian society whose existence depends on a dark secret. The inhabitants of this […]
You’ve probably been hearing a lot about the Large Hadron Collider in the news lately. After 16 years the LHC seems to be in the headlines each week, breaking speed, […]
The “Prisoner’s Dilemma” is one of game theory’s oldest, most influential and most poetic ideas. As in life, a player’s best strategy depends on the kind of game she’s in […]
Smart people have long had a history of quirky and inexplicable habits: Nietzsche wound up hugging horses, Freud couldn’t kick a drug addiction, Nikola Tesla adored white pigeons and loathed […]
Imagine no waiting room at the doctor’s office. Scratch that. Now picture no doctor’s office at all. In this practice, you make appointments via text, video chat or email, and […]
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The more potential dating partners we are choosing from, the more likely we are to choose someone based on looks.
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About the only time our gut impulse can outperform our reason is if we have developed some kind of truly informed intuition.
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Different cultures have different attitudes about options–and about how many choices a person needs to have in order to decide.
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Most of the time, when we’re confronted by an abundance of choices, it’s because we’re novices and don’t know how to differentiate between them.
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Animals, like humans, want to exert control over their lives with choices. Humans show this desire from a young age.
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Growing up in a Sikh-American family, the business professor became fascinated with decisions. As she gradually grew blind, she wondered how much her own choices would be diminished.
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A conversation with the Columbia Business School professor.
The Catholic Church will be “a different color” in 40 years. And there will likely be female priests.
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This priest advises to stop “shoulding” all over yourself.
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It’s dangerous to be spiritual without being religious, and vice versa.
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Why the television host’s recent comment betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding of the gospel.
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The Church’s sex scandal has nothing to do with celibacy and everything to do with a “culture of secrecy” that put the Church’s public image first.