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The billionaire media mogul was surprised that Wolff’s biography of him was so “personal.”
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A conversation with the Vanity Fair columnist, author of The Biography of Rupert Murdoch and founder of Newser.
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Technological solutions may help increase some of the limits of memory, but we should also simply be aware that our intuitions might be wrong.
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The psychologist demonstrates the “lowest technology” form of memory test.
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We are more likely to believe the veracity of intense “flash-bulb memories”—yet these are just as likely as normal memories to be distorted over time.
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We are seduced by the forecasters who seem the most confident. When we follow their advice, we often believe we’re making better decisions than we are.
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There’s a whole category of intuitions that are systematically wrong in very dangerous ways—those we have about how our own minds work.
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The psychologist’s “invisible gorilla” experiment demonstrates how we often miss major details when we’re concentrating on something else.
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A conversation with the Assistant Professor of Psychology at Union College.
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Because of William Phillips’ work in laser cooling, atomic clocks are almost a thousand times better than they used to be.
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For half of American high school students, college should start when they are 16 years old.
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Leon Botstein became the president of Bard at 23, when the college was in a situation of “complete desperation.”
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No, says the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra conductor; the most music can offer is common ground.
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Engaging the next generation will be like re-introducing a child to vegetables they hated when they were children.
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Leon Botstein explains why his “Classics Declassified” is akin to discovering a new city by wandering around.
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Putting a piece of music on the stage is always about intention of the interpreter. It’s never really an honest historical representation of what the composer intended.
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The conductor was inspired to study music after his mother, a pianist, tragically lost her hearing.
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A conversation with the President of Bard College and the Music Director of the American Symphony Orchestra and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
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Azim Premji’s main concern is that too much protectionism is building up in the developed world.
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China will likely take proactive steps to slow down the flow of money through exports.
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The most important thing that India needs to do is maintain fiscal discipline.
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The Billionaire explains why he’s decided to give most of his fortune to charity.
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A conversation with the Chairman of Wipro.
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Because heads of global companies are more responsive to the wishes of authoritarian regimes, authoritarian values are beginning to take hold in the U.S.
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The economist presents the “Prestowitz plan”—a to-do list for how we can play our cards better.
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The fact that we can just keep printing dollars allows us to be irresponsible. As a result, we over-consume, over-spend, and over-borrow.
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We’re depleting our resources and innovative energy in order to develop specialized products and technologies we don’t actually want to use.
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From 1800 to 1950, we acted, economically, the way China is acting today.
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A conversation with the President of the Economic Strategy Institute.
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In writing, as in sports, “if you want to compete you have to train.”
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