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Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce
 
Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce
Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point
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Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghet...more
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Vilayanur Ramachandran: A Journey to the Center of Your Min
 
Vilayanur Ramachandran: A Journey to the Center of Your Min
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Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral t...more
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Dan Gilbert: Exploring the frontiers of happiness
 
Dan Gilbert: Exploring the frontiers of happiness
Daniel GilbertStumbling on Happiness
3 people liked it | 211 views
Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising ...more
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Steven Levitt: Why do crack dealers still live with their moms?
 
Steven Levitt: Why do crack dealers still live with their moms?
Steven D. LevittFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidde...
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Freakonomics author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to pop...more
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Steven Levitt: Are children's carseats necessary?
 
Steven Levitt: Are children's carseats necessary?
Steven D. LevittFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidde...
2 people liked it | 271 views
Steven Levitt shares data that shows car seats are no more effective than seatbelts in protecting ki...more
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Steven Pinker: Chalking it up to the blank slate
 
Steven Pinker: Chalking it up to the blank slate
Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
2 people liked it | 667 views
Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, ...more
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Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought
 
Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought
Steven PinkerThe Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Hu...
2 people liked it | 240 views
In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it...more
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Maira Kalman: The illustrated woman
 
Maira Kalman: The illustrated woman
Maira KalmanThe Elements of Style
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Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorke...more
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Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy?
 
Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy?
Daniel GilbertStumbling on Happiness
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Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that well be miserable if we don'...more
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Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence
 
Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence
Steven PinkerHow the Mind Works
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Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, th...more
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10 Things You Didn't Know About Orgasm
 
10 Things You Didn't Know About Orgasm
Mary RoachBonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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"Bonk" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old...more
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