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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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While there is value to graduate writing degrees, so many of the young writers encouraged by their MFA professors aren’t going to make it. This leaves Shriver uneasy.
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If you speak too much to the immediate moment, it’s already moved on by the time your book is published.
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The author’s impulse to write stems from her feelings of social incompetence.
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Lionel Shriver’s career began after winning a writing contest about her school’s newly renovated cafeteria.
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The state of the world and its social problems aren’t worth losing sleep over. As the evolutionary psychologist explains, just worry about your science.
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Intelligent people create novel solutions to problems—a fact that has resulted in a rich history of smart people picking up eccentric values and habits.
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Love was designed by evolution to compel us to engage in behavior that will spread our genes into the next generation. But divorce, far from a modern phenomenon, has also […]
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In a number of fundamental ways, human psychology hasn’t budged in a very long time.
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It turns out that you indeed can judge a book by its cover—nice people look nice and nasty people look nasty.
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There is a proven mathematical theorem for why dating and finding a job in a large urban area is difficult and frustrating.
Humans are, in a sense, hardwired to be conservative, and it requires a unique intelligence to acquire something as evolutionarily novel as liberalism.
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The evolutionary psychologist explains that attractive people tend to have girls, a trend that is making women far more attractive on average than men.
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The primary goal of life is reproductive success, a common bond that explains why, for scientists, artists, and even criminals, genius and discovery peak among the young and single.
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A conversation with the evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics.
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“I think that is a very shady practice and it’s harming our health in exchange for creating a whole industry of profitability of selling snake oil and marketing gimmicks,” says […]
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The tools and information on the Internet may be able to help prevent office visits, especially primary care visits.
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Hello Health is revolutionizing the physician/patient relationship by integrating online tools and communication into the healthcare process.
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How much would it cost to design a social networking site to sign up all 11 million health care workers in America? Less than $20 billion.
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A conversation with the co-founder of Hello Health.