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Highly effective impulse marketing strategies have been perfected for selling junk food. Obesity rates have skyrocketed.
"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life."- Federico Fellini (born on this date in 1920)
"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves."- Daniel Webster (born on this date in 1782)
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." - Muhammad Ali (born on this date in 1942)
Dennis Kozlowski, the founder and former CEO of Tyco, is seen as a poster child for an era wrought with greed and corporate corruption. Catherine Neal challenges this one-dimensional view of the man.
On a small island off the coast of Norway, the water froze so quickly that it caught a large school of fish in place.
In response to the data-harvesting practices of the NSA, a new smartphone has been unveiled "whose whole purpose is to protect users' privacy."
"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes." - Susan Sontag (born on this date in 1933)
In theory, a genetics research firm could enable parents to choose 'smart embryos.'
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "The risk of civilization-threatening technological catastrophe remains high."
"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."- Molière
Men have adapted to deliberately use anger to gain advantage and get what they want.
A federal ruling might be a big win for broadband companies who could cut deals with large content providers — Disney or Netflix — to ensure that their web content is delivered faster and more reliably than other sites.
The psychologist Christopher Ryan says sex scandals ought to be treated as a private matter, and that would represent a "more realistic understanding of human nature."
"People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them."- John Dos Passos (born on this date in 1896)
Illustrations of the wonders of weightlessness by the artist Graham Booth.
"I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university."- Jay McInerney (born on this date in 1956)
Prisoners are strongly influenced by the self-enhancement motive (i.e., the desire to see themselves in positive light)...no matter what objective circumstances might be.