37 days ago by Mark

If there is anything that history teaches us about empires, it is that they are temporary and often fall of their own decaying weight. Ancient Rome is notorious for a descent that was widely speculated to have been driven by a massive class disparity. The aristocratic patricians devolved into a mora ...

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38 days ago by Marc Schuster

Big thanks to author D. Thomas Minton for chatting with me about my forthcoming novel, The Grievers, and posting the results on his blog! Over the past few months, I’ve become a big fan of his fiction, so it was an honor to share an advance copy of my novel with him and talk about [...]

Abominations - marcschuster.wordpress.com · Rank: 23,115 · 16 references

39 days ago by TED Talks

The battle between your present and future self December 2011 Daniel Goldstein studies how we make decisions about our financial selves — both now and in the future, Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves. (Can I skip flossing just this one time?) Danie ...

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40 days ago

Miami Heat player LeBron James started off the year in an exciting way by proposing to girlfriend Savannah Brinson, the New York Daily News reports. James proposed at his belated birthday celebration and New Year's Eve party at the Vesper American By Tim Reynolds, AP MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James' first ...

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42 days ago by Michael B. Calyn

OPINION The Joy of Quiet By PICO IYER Published: December 29, 2011 ABOUT a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on “Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.” ...

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46 days ago by Deanna and David Waters

If someone were to ask you what makes an entrepreneur successful, you might list attributes like his or her intelligence, personal appearance, education, dedication and hard work. While all of those qualities can be important, depending on the line of work, there are surprising forces in our lives t ...

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46 days ago by Kevin Rains

I’m starting to think again about how environments influence and eventually shape us. There are lots of examples of this in the wider natural world where certain species of fish will only grow to a certain size if they are in one body of water but if placed in a larger body of water they will grow m ...

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46 days ago by Jerome Weeks

This week, KERA’s Art & Seek will look at people in North Texas arts worth keeping an eye on in 2012. Today, KERA’s Jerome Weeks talks with Dallas author Ben Fountain, whose first novel will be published in the spring. KERA radio story: Expanded online story: Ben Fountain may be the most acclaimed s ...

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46 days ago by Laura Fabiani

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown & Company ISBN: 978-0316017923 Published Nov 18, 2008 Hardcover, 309 pages This is the first book I read from Malcolm Gladwell, and it has helped me to see things with different eyes both from the perspective of a parent and a professi ...

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46 days ago by Jim Woods

What was the impetus for you to write The Tipping Point? I got interested in the dramatic crime decrease in New York in the mid-1990s. That was right when I moved to the city for the first time. And I was stunned at how New York went from a place that everyone thought of as dangerous to a place that ...

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