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Making Sense
“What is it like to be a bat?” asked philosopher Thomas Nagel in his influential 1974 essay. “I assume we all believe that bats have experience,” he continued, but can we ever understand what it
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THE SECRET TO SOUNDING SMART? USING SIMPLE LANGUAGE
Fast Company: It might sound counterintuitive, but using four-syllable textbook words to demonstrate your smarts will actually make you appear less capable. “So often, our intuitions about what will impress others are wrong,” says Daniel
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The one thing about ‘matching’ algorithms that dating sites don’t want you to know
The Washington Post: Tinder released an updated version of its matching algorithm today, a “big change” that CEO Sean Rad has been hyping for the past week. In a blog post, Tinder offered few details
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Scaring People Can Make Them Healthier, But It Isn’t Always The Way To Go
NPR: The use of fear in public health campaigns has been controversial for decades. A campaign with gruesome photos of a person dying of lung cancer to combat smoking might make people think twice about
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How the Internet Has Changed Bullying
The New Yorker: In some ways, bullying research has affirmed what we already know. Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic—the strong attacking the weak. It can happen in different ways: through physical
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Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
The New York Times: COLLEGE students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected. They say it’s a skill
