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Our ability to learn from others is crucial for the evolution of cumulative technologies, but often paralyzes our causal intuition.
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Why our prejudices may be deeply ingrained in our evolutionary development.
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Why Wall Street investors may think more like monkeys than we might have imagined.
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Scientists had to consider how primates think in order to develop the right experiments to study them.
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A conversation with the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University.
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Jere Van Dyk, who was imprisoned by the Taliban for 45 days, thinks journalists need to better explain that the U.S. is partially responsible for the destruction of Afghanistan.
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Jere Van Dyk, who was imprisoned by the Taliban for 45 days, offers some cautionary advice to the new commander of the Afghanistan War.
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Alan Abramowitz is the Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory, and a renowned expert on national politics and elections. His expertise includes election forecasting models, party realignment in the […]
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Can we shift away from the notion of a people-based tax in this era of outsourcing and offshoring?
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A soup-to-nuts example of how a municipality can adopt sustainable practices in a way that’s ultimately beneficial for the bottom line.
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Organizations need to reconsider all of the waste and energy consumption associated with their business—while still keeping profits in mind.
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A conversation with the CEO of Hara Software.
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It’s essential that several pieces click into place for the country to become the next big superpower, but its future looks bright.
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The Legg Mason investment strategist has four key tips for starting investors.
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What’s going on around you is influencing your daily decisions much more than you realize.
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The best investors tend to be more reserved, more independent, and less attuned to what other people are doing.
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When it comes to investing advice, media pundits tend to amplify both optimism and pessimism.
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Everybody knows that outcomes are a combination of skill and luck, but we tend not to be very good at understanding the relative contributions of the two.
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We like to follow a bullish or bearish trend. But the best investors sell when everyone’s buying, and buy when everyone’s selling.
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A conversation with the Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management.