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The economist’s prediction that market rationality was wrong is an example of why conventional wisdom should be tested for weakness.
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Knowing what empirical data to look for is the key to confirming an idea—especially when that idea is the premonition of a looming global economic crisis.
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A conversation with the NYU economist.
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A conversation with the 39th President of the United States.
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The Carters’ key to marital bliss? Jimmy and Rosalynn resolved long ago never to go to sleep angry at one another.
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Over the next 50 years, China will become a global superpower, but unlike the U.S., it is very careful to avoid the entanglements of war.
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Carter, who brokered one of the most successful Mideast peace agreements during his presidency, offers his thoughts on Israeli-Palestinian relations.
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The President should stop trying to negotiate with the “totally irresponsible” Republicans, letting the American people know where he stands, without equivocation.
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The 39th President laments his failure to be reelected—and his failure to keep the Democratic Party unified.
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The public has made tremendous strides towards accepting gay people—and is even ready to have one in the White House.
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The former President gave his controversial “malaise speech” in 1979, admonishing the American public for consuming beyond its means. Things are even worse now, he says.
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America has been the most innovative nation of the past century. But decades of consumption beyond its means have robbed the country of its competitive edge, says the former President.
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The GOP needs to “look in the mirror” and justify its conflicting ideologies, says Mehlman.
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American businesses are currently sitting on $3 trillion as they wait for new regulations to be implemented.
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Private equity firms are not the “barbarians at the gate” that the media would have you believe, says Mehlman.
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Young people need to look at the world in a fresh new way and say: “Enough is enough, you guys screwed it up, we need to take our planet back.”
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Ricky Gervais was able to capitalize on a generational shift with an understanding that so much of the comedy is not set up, set up, punch line. It really is […]
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“You have to really key into what the other person you’re acting with is saying and how they’re saying it, and react in the moment to what is going on,” […]
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The actor grew up a member of the Baha’i faith, and “soaked in all kinds of different beliefs.” He lost himself in his career when he was younger, but then […]
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The actor says he would hire his TV alter-ego “in a heartbeat,” because Dwight would do anything. “I could hire him for any job imaginable and he would morph himself […]
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I have a talent for playing oddball characters and I can make people laugh,” says Wilson. “That can help bring families together … it puts a smile on their face, […]
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Technology, like anything else that mankind creates, is a tool that can be used for good or for evil. It’s supposed to bring people together and make life easier—but it […]
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People have trouble living creatively when they don’t know who they are or what they’re about. The best thing to do if you’re blocked is to make radical changes and […]
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A conversation with the CEO of Gay Men’s Health Crisis.
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After three or four odors are blended together, even the best noses in the world have a difficult time distinguishing one original scent from another.
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“There are some things that simply disgust us in a very, very instinctive, deep kind of way. And there are other things that we clearly learn to find either good […]
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The cause of the so-called “Proustian experience” of recalling a vivid memory through taste is well documented, but its cause continues to confound scientists.
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What’s remarkable about the olfactory system is that from the outside world to the highest level of brain tissue there are only two synapses.
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Our olfactory system’s methods of molecular recognition provide a model for understanding all kinds of other receptors in our bodies.
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