Famous philosophers like Socrates, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ayn Rand have challenged the way we consider the world and our place in it.
Facebook stake: 2.5% Value: $2.13 billion "Just don't f**k it up," is what Peter Thiel told Mark Zuckerberg when the two finalized Thiel's investment in the cash-strapped startup, according to Facebook chronicler David Kirkpatrick. In late 2004, Thiel became Facebook's first significant...
was that the company in the story, Jukt Micronics, didn't exist. Glass's editor at The New Republic launched an investigation into the rest of Glass's work and discovered that 27 of his 41 pieces for the magazine were total fabrications or contained some made-up facts [source: Bissinger...
He made her walk and turn. He made her close her eyes, tilt her head up and count silently to 30. She passed all the tests.At some point her daughter arrived, as did her husband. She did not know what to tell them.Shaver could have arrested Peters. Possessing pot on school grounds...
I found these people in rooms with carefully placed tissue boxes. That’s where I met still, compassionate therapists who made room for my pain without rushing me past it. They met my struggles not with urgency, not with fixes, but with something that felt, for the fir...
and creative thinking. they often end when it is time for friston to retreat to the minuscule metal balcony hanging off his office for another smoke. friston first became a heroic figure in academia for devising many of the most important tools that have made human brains legible to science...
Made to Stickby Chip Heath explores the psychology of ideas with a focus on what makes them last. Why do some ideas persist and others fade away? In this book, Heath dissects some of the most persistent, influential ideas and uncovers the persuasive DNA they share. If you want to make ...
Many attempts have been made to understand what influences happiness and if it might be accomplished volitionally. The term happiness is commonly used to describe a specific pleasant state, mostly synonymous with subjective well-being (Kesebir & Diener, 2008). Subjective well-being has been found...
Book Reviews: John A. Stanford, The Man Who Wrestled With God: Light from the Old Testament on the Psychology of Individuation. New York/Ramsey: Paulist Press, 1981. $6.95Vogels WalterBiblical Theology Bulletin Journal of Bible & Culture...
the Uganda Wildlife Authority, the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology, and the University of Toronto Animal Care Committee. The methods were carried out in accordance with these protocols and the ARRIVE guidelines. We had two goals with this experiment; the first was to examine ...