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Culture

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Culture

Engineers figure out how to harness the power of technology; economists figure out how to harness the power of incentives. Our prosperity relies on both.

Engineers figure out how to harness the power of technology; economists figure out how to harness the power of incentives. Our prosperity relies on both.…

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Dawkins’ Flawed View of Religion

For Richard Dawkins, people like religion the way moths like flames. But he misses religion’s real adaptive value, argues David Sloan Wilson… more

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The Psychology of Blogging

n+1 nails an important psychological aspect of blogs:

Imagine a grandfather clock that strikes at random intervals. You can’t tell time by it and yet

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Artist Eve Mosher is drawing a chalk line around Brooklyn…

Artist Eve Mosher is drawing a chalk line around Brooklyn and lower Manhattan that denotes the encroachment of the ocean if it were to rise …

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Feuds: Ben Greenman Attacks Seth Rogen

MEN AT WARYesterday we were faxed a letter written by New Yorker writer (and sometime Gawker contributor) Ben Greenman. It’s addressed to actor and “Knocked …

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This Is Your Life (and How You Tell It) – New York Times: Stories are stories, after all. The attractive stranger at the airport bar …

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