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Andrew Ross Sorkin believes in taking a holistic approach to avoid future meltdowns: “This crisis was a result of the fact that everybody was as interconnected as they were.”
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A conversation with the New York Times columnist and author of “Too Big to Fail.”
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The takeaway of the crisis: individual players pursuing individual interests collectively will not always create an outcome which is good for the collective or even for those individual players, says […]
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We have collectively stopped thinking about how, when legislation on financial regulation gets hammered out, political economy enters into the picture, says Chrystia Freeland, the U.S. Managing Editor of the […]
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Secretary of Defense nominee Charlie Wilson famously remarked in his 1953 confirmation hearing that he couldn’t imagine something in GM’s interests that ran contrary to the interests of the country. […]
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The U.S. Managing Editor of the FT addresses the validity of economists’ views, the alleged entanglement of news and opinion, and the ongoing attempt to build a “broad church.”
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A conversation with the U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times.
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A conversation with the bestselling author and leading expert on business and business sociology.
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Though modern science may present us with the unflattering image of human life as a “bottomless terror,” New Age attempts to disguise the truth and embellish this portrait are what […]
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The illusion that time moves and is distinct from space is one of our deepest misconceptions about the natural world.
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Do some of the essential findings of modern science rule out the possibility of free will? Is there a separation between mental and physical entities? Does it matter? The philosopher […]
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Throughout much of the 20th century, quantum mechanics seemed to kill the idea that human beings could develop an “intelligible, mechanical model of the world.” But today, the search for […]
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What is quantum mechanics? A philosopher of science explains how it emerged as the necessary response to classical physics.
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What will it take to test one of the most ambitious scientific theories of our time? At this point, even the grandest effort to establish its truth will be far […]
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The philosopher of physics explains the “unsettling” manner in which movement, at its most essential level, breaks down cognitive categories and exhausts the capacities of human logic.
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The fundamental contradictions of physics are present in even the most quotidian of objects. As the philosopher of science explains, some of quantum mechanics’ greatest mysteries are embodied in a […]
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A conversation with the philosopher of science at Columbia University.
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What can a philosophy of science really accomplish? As the head of Columbia’s Philosophy of Physics program explains, the field is at its healthiest when philosophy and science are indistinguishable […]
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Historian of technology Rachel Maines explains the most fascinating insight to emerge from her current research.
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Activities that were once functional—from gardening to brewing—have become recreational in advanced societies. The author of “Hedonizing Technologies” explains why.
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The “Hedonizing Technologies” author wouldn’t bet against it. Ironing, she says, is already a sport.
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How common is vibrator use among women, men, and societies worldwide? Has this segment of the market been hurt (or stimulated) by the recession?
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And did the doctors who claimed to “treat” it by inducing orgasm know better? Rachel Maines reveals the truth behind the historical rumors.
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The “Technology of Orgasm” author recounts the outrageous history of female genital “manipulators,” from water-powered turbines to the contraption called the Chattanooga.
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When Rachel Maines first published a history of the vibrator (“The Technology of Orgasm”), she “expected it to derail [her] career, and it did.” But even she wasn’t prepared for […]
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Stay fit and be a star in whatever studies you pursue.
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These days the astronaut worries about how best to prepare his young children for a changing world.
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Leroy Chiao had to overcome being picked on for his small stature and being one of the few minorities in his mostly white Midwest town.
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