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The media entrepreneur defends his online aggregation site Newser and explains his lofty alternate career plans.
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From the age of four, Anatoly Karpov saw great beauty in chess. He made the game his profession and was the world champion for a decade, from 1975 to 1985.
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If the weekly magazine is still being published 25 years from now, Michael Wolff will owe David Remnick a dinner.
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Once the paper begins charging for online content in January, the question will be: What does the New York Times become without its readers?
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“I can’t imagine why anyone would want to work for this guy,” says Michael Wolff of the Apple CEO.
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His first internet company tanked. So was Wolff nervous about launching Newser?
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The writer had a feeling of “immense relief that this quixotic enterprise of buying the magazine would not end up as my terrible fate.”
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Michael Wolff remembers his first time walking into the “depressing, smoke-filled” newsroom after he was hired—and knowing it wasn’t a place where he wanted to work.
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The billionaire media mogul was surprised that Wolff’s biography of him was so “personal.”
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A conversation with the Vanity Fair columnist, author of The Biography of Rupert Murdoch and founder of Newser.
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Technological solutions may help increase some of the limits of memory, but we should also simply be aware that our intuitions might be wrong.
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The psychologist demonstrates the “lowest technology” form of memory test.
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We are more likely to believe the veracity of intense “flash-bulb memories”—yet these are just as likely as normal memories to be distorted over time.
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We are seduced by the forecasters who seem the most confident. When we follow their advice, we often believe we’re making better decisions than we are.
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There’s a whole category of intuitions that are systematically wrong in very dangerous ways—those we have about how our own minds work.
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The psychologist’s “invisible gorilla” experiment demonstrates how we often miss major details when we’re concentrating on something else.
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A conversation with the Assistant Professor of Psychology at Union College.
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Because of William Phillips’ work in laser cooling, atomic clocks are almost a thousand times better than they used to be.
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For half of American high school students, college should start when they are 16 years old.
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Leon Botstein became the president of Bard at 23, when the college was in a situation of “complete desperation.”