Articles posted on Monday, January 18, 2016
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: Literature
From priorprobability.com
We’ve just finished reading Robert Trivers’s strange memoir “Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist.” But before proceeding with our short review, we must disclose up front that Dr Trivers is one of our intellectual heroes–along with Thomas Schelling, Gordon Tullock, and Ronald Coase. Find more articles like "Review of Trivers (2015)"
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: Behavior
From reason.com
publichealthwatchIt is almost a truism among psychological researchers that conservatives are simple-minded and dogmatic. Liberals, meanwhile, are supposed to be more complex and open-minded thinkers. But a new paper is calling those conclusions into question. Find more articles like "Liberals Are Simple-Minded - Reason.com"
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: Economics
From blogs.reuters.com
Itâ€s the meme that refuses to die. It started, back in 2011, with the Waltons: six members of the family, we were repeatedly told, were worth as much as the bottom 30% of all Americans combined. I tried to address this silly stat back then, but now itâ€s gone global: back in January, Oxfam announced that the worldâ€s 85 richest people had the same wealth as the bottom half of the global population. Find more articles like "Stop adding up the wealth of the poor"
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: Society
From www.wsj.com
Picture a woman born in 1870: your grandmother, or great-grandmother, or great-great-grandmother. Then picture her in 1940. She sits resting with her family in a house brightened by electricityâ€"a wonder, considering that she had been born in the darkness of sparse candlelight. Find more articles like "Those Were the Days - WSJ"
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: Politics
From tiffinbox.org
This is a very special interview with an international, award-winning photojournalist G.M.B. Akash. He is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh and represented by Panos Pictures. Wrangling him into finding the time to answer these questions took some doing because he was always on the road working on one project or another. Find more articles like "An Interview With Photojournalist G.M.B. Akash"
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: World
From www.telegraph.co.uk
The close-up was always
Hollywoodâ€s answer to the portrait, but the spaghetti western turned
it into a landscape. When Sergio Leone first zeroed in on Clint
Eastwoodâ€s narrowed eyes and gritted teeth in A Fistful of Dollars, he
wasnâ€t just showing off his leading manâ€s face â€" he was revealing the
craggy topography of his soul. Find more articles like "The Hateful Eight review: 'only Tarantino can do this'"
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: History
From thepostmortempost.com
Chrysippus was a Greek Stoic philosopher born circa 279BC in Soli, Cilicia, a Roman province located in modern-day Turkey. He served as head of the Stoic School of Hellenistic philosophy in Athens until his death in circa 206BC. Find more articles like "Chrysippus Died Laughing (Literally)"
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: Science
From nymag.com
Chances are, you’re a little wary of MSG, even if you’re not exactly sure why. (It’s something to do with Chinese food and headaches or … something … right?) This week, the folks at the American Chemical Society, a congressionally chartered organization representing professionals and researchers in the field of chemistry, released a video designed to assuage those fears, assuring us that MSG is perfectly safe to consume. Find more articles like "MSG Isnâ€t Harmful -- Science of Us"
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: Sports
From www.theguardian.com
On a day of extended drama and fevered speculation, Novak Djokovic spoke in depth for the first time about being offered $200,000 (Ł140,000) to fix a match 10 years ago and Roger Federer, the gameâ€s most venerated player, called the latest allegations, to be aired on the BBC on Tuesday night, “far-fetched”. Find more articles like "Novak Djokovic tells of being offered $200,000 to fix a match"
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: Economics
From thepointmag.com
The mosquito net donations are an excellent example of how the decisions of effective altruists are rooted in their own happiness rather than others as demonstrated by the use of some of these nets for fishing by starving villagers, see http://nyti. Find more articles like "Add Your Own Egg"
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: World
From www.bradford-delong.com
Revised and Extended: I could now talk about the risks of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. You have already heard a lot about the risks in the previous session here. You have heard about dispute resolution and about intellectual property. Find more articles like "The Grand Strategy of Rising Superpower Management"
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: Health
From www.theage.com.au
It was often a topic of conversation. Patricia and Peter Shaw would discuss with their three daughters their determination to avoid hospitals, nursing homes, palliative care units - any institution that would threaten their independence in old age. Find more articles like "The big sleep"
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Category: Science
From www.gatesnotes.com
I’m in New Orleans, where I just had the honor of speaking at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). As you can imagine, given that this is a gathering of experts on infectious diseases in poor countries, Ebola is on everyone’s mind. Find more articles like "We Can Eradicate Malaria--Within a Generation"
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