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Happier Spending
The New York Times: SQUARE WALLET, an innovative new app, is changing the way we spend our money. Here’s how it works: you link your credit or debit card to the app, shop, take your
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Oh, the humanity. Putting faces on social causes.
Back in the 1940s, the U.S. Forest Service began a public service campaign aimed at preventing forest fires. It featured Smokey Bear, a humanized caricature of a bear wearing blue jeans and a ranger’s hat.
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Food aversions: why they occur and how you can tackle them
The Guardian: Like favourite childhood scars, food aversions are deeply personal, often come with a backstory, and are ripe for comparing with others. This is classic ice-breaking conversation territory in the west, where there is
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People are over confident despite errors
Business Standard: A new study suggests that overprecision is a common and robust form of overconfidence driven, at least in part, by excessive certainty in the accuracy of our judgments. The research, conducted by researchers
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Spooky Judgments: How Agents Think About Danger
We are watching Big Brother watching us. Whatever one thinks of Edward Snowden, hero or traitor or something in between, his revelations about sweeping NSA surveillance have gotten America’s attention. His whistle blowing has raised
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Would You Accept DNA From A Murderer?
NPR: Modern medicine and technology can change the way we define our physical and psychological selves. Is a prosthetic arm “your own arm” in the same sense that its biological predecessor seemed to be? Might