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Rich on Afghanistan Escalation
In a penetrating essay on Obama’s Afghanistan escalation speech to West Point undergrads, Frank Rich offers the following insight:But the president’s own method for rallying public support — ...more
2009-12-06
Jared Diamond on Wal-mart’s Environmentalism
In today’s New York Times, Jared Diamond gives a thoughtful discussion about the role of corporations in cleaning up the environment. Here’s an excerpt about Wal-mart’s environmen...more
2009-12-06
The Supernatural Punishment Hypothesis
http://www.webster.edu/religion-violence/Readings/God%27s_Punishment.pdf
2009-12-04
Bank-Church Conspiracy in Subprime Mortgage Scams
From today’s Atlantic:Among Latinos the prosperity gospel has been spreading rapidly. In a recent Pew survey, 73 percent of all religious Latinos in the United States agreed with the statemen...more
2009-12-02
Cooperation in Infants and Children
From the New York Times:When infants 18 months old see an unrelated adult whose hands are full and who needs assistance opening a door or picking up a dropped clothespin, they will immediately help...more
2009-12-01
Perverse Health Care Incentives
From the New York Times Magazine piece on innovation in health care:ONE DAY, WHILE I was standing in Intermountain’s cardiology intensive-care unit, which, unlike those in many other hospitals, is ...more
2009-11-25
Sociologist describes grim realities of academic science
Science writer Beryl Benderly reviews sociologist Joseph Hermanowicz’s penetrating study of academic science. It’s uncomfortable stuff for people whose life trajectories are headed stra...more
2009-11-13
Comments on study of human behavior
Relative to those of other organisms, human behavioral modules are flexible in their applicability to new problem domains. Compared to the universally optimizing decision strategies available to ho...more
2009-11-09
Recession Psychology
In the May edition of New York Magazine, Jennifer Senior wrote thatKathleen Vohs, a consumer psychologist at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, is preeminent among them, an...more
2009-11-04
Dollar Store = Credit Limit Decrease
Computer Scientist Panos Ipeirotis writes thatAn interesting example of a company deriving policy based on their predictive model is American Express. They realized that the feature “customer...more
2009-10-27

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