February 2011
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The Lost Art of Pickpocketing →
The venerable crime has all but disappeared in the United States. What happened, and should we miss it?
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How the new sciences of human nature can help make... →
And though history has made us self-conscious in order to enhance our survival prospects, we still have deep impulses to erase the skull lines in our head and become immersed directly in the river. I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when...
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oneman - ninety three mixtape →
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‘survive it’ is the second single and also my favorite track from Ghostpoet’s fantastic debut album!
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RA 246 Caribou →
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The Death Of The Music Industry →
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taken from Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Bubbler vol 6.
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Economics Behaving Badly →
Behavioral economics should complement, not substitute for, more substantive economic interventions. If traditional economics suggests that we should have a larger price difference between sugar-free and sugared drinks, behavioral economics could suggest whether consumers would respond better to a subsidy on unsweetened drinks or a tax on sugary drinks.
But that’s the most it can do. For all of...
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Why IBM's next target should be a machine that... →
The irony is that, unlike checkers or chess, a poker program that studies behavior begins to resemble the very thing that Deep Blue did not: a machine that plays games like a human.
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"This American Life" reveals original Coca-Cola... →
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Tell Congress: Don't pull the plug on NPR and PBS →
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malcolm gladwell bookgenerator →
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The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post →