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Rushdie is fascinated by video games like “Red Dead Redemption,” which allows gamers much more agency to choose the path they take through the narrative. Will all storytelling have to […]
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The new film does not, as the director has claimed, portray “original” burlesque. It should just be called “Nightclub,” says the burlesque scholar.
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In dealing with the disease, it’s important to get an understanding of the process from people who have been through it. You also need to stay true to yourself.
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The financial crisis showed how important it is to have a safe, yet robust financial system to fund the growth of small, medium, and large companies. Curbing excesses is clearly […]
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Hollywood caricatures capitalism as a zero-sum game. But all of Facebook’s stakeholders have done extraordinarily well—including Eduardo Saverin.
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Technological innovation requires risk and sacrifice, which may be very hard to do if you have an enormous debt burden to try to repay.
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In this Summer School for the Real World feature, PayPal founder Peter Thiel says people can get locked into rigid tracks too early, preventing them from developing their interests and […]
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California is still the best place for tech companies to do business. But colonies on offshore platforms might one day become our centers of innovation.
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A conversation with the venture capitalist.
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During the next 20 years, the plan for China and India is basically to catch up to the U.S.—to get 19th century plumbing and 20th century railroads. That is not […]
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There has been lots of innovation recently in areas without regulation—heavily regulated fields like transportation, health care, and energy have been much slower to progress.
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The venture capitalist agrees with Bill Gates that the free market often fails to encourage long-term innovation. But governments are not the solution.
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Positive psychologists have found a series of scientifically-proven ways for you live a happier life.
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Genetic testing is advancing rapidly, and we can now find out our risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s. But without a cure or treatment available, what’s the point?
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Studies have shown that you can boost brainpower and brain resilience with vitamins and exercise, and by not smoking. But lifestyle choices alone can’t prevent Alzheimer’s?
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Alzheimer’s starts in one area and spreads all over the brain, like an infection. Does this mean that it’s possible to develop a vaccine?
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Genes such as ApoE4 may signal a risk factor for Alzheimer’s. But how do we separate risk factor from an unalterable sentence for the disease?
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Amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles inside the brain are the best explanation we have for how Alzheimer’s develops.
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Mental decline, on some level, is inseparable from aging. With more people living longer, does this mean everyone will eventually get Alzheimer’s?
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One of the most robust environmental risk factors identified for Alzheimer’s disease is traumatic brain injury. This is having repercussions for those returning from fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.