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M.I.A. - Paper Planes
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Unhidden Persuaders - WSJ.com »
Mr. Walker coins the term “murketing” (murky marketing) to describe this new, unfocused style. One of its key elements is “projectability”: making your product a canvas that different groups can…
Starbucks to close 600 stores, cut 12,000 jobs - Los Angeles Times »
“Throughout the history of the company, we have always aspired to put our people first,” Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz said in a statement. “At the same time, we recognize that it is…
Hedonic Man »
Tversky died of cancer in 1996. Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2002, and is an emeritus professor at Princeton. Between them, they rattled the role of reason in the pantheon of human…
THE SCIENCE OF HUMOUR | More Intelligent Life »
The study of laughter has entered mainstream psychology. Anthony Gottlieb reads the reports—and a new book on the history of jokes—and finds much to chuckle over .
Isn't It Funny? - The New York Review of Books »
Most ancient theorists, from Plato and Aristotle on, saw jokes as an expression of superiority, humor as “mockery and derision,” and laughter, therefore, as “a slightly spiritualized snarl.”
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Smashing Pumpkins - Hope
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Conceptual Trends and Current Topics »
We were both struck at how improbable current events would be to anyone in the past, and how incapable we are at expecting the improbable in the future.
Obama, McCain make strong bid for Latino votes »
Obama’s campaign appears eager to seize the moment: It is marshaling Latino leaders such as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to stump for the candidate.