mobi, epub |eng | 2006-03-07 | Author:Daniel H. Pink

Bomeisler is a sympathetic teacher with the gentle manner of Mr. Rogers had Mr. Rogers done time on Paris’s left bank. During each drawing exercise, he glides around the room ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Daniel Gilbert

Onward Historians use the word presentism to describe the tendency to judge historical figures by contemporary standards. As much as we all despise racism and sexism, these isms have only ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Sheena Iyengar

VI. THE 500-POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM The freedom lover (and Coke drinker) in you may be thinking that there must be something you can do to counteract all the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Duncan J. Watts

FUTURE SHOCK No matter how carefully you adhere to this advice, a serious limitation with all prediction methods is that they are only reliable to the extent that the same ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-09 | Author:Knapp, Caroline [Knapp, Caroline]

If there were a 12-step program for codependent dog owners, I’d no doubt be a prime candidate, but I’d hardly be the only member. Right there in the church basement ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Brockman, John

IS THE NEW PUBLIC SPHERE . . . PUBLIC? ANDREW LIH Associate professor, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California; author, The Wikipedia Revolution The advent of ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Thomas Suddendorf [Suddendorf, Thomas]

NINE Right and Wrong Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. —CHARLES DARWIN I GREW UP ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Turner, Mark

FIGURE 10 Representation Relation FIGURE 11 Compressing a Representation Relation to a Unique Element in the Blend Most blends of this sort, but not all, have connections not only of ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-07 | Author:Jonah Lehrer

WILSON WAS INTRIGUED by the strawberry-jam experiment. It seemed to contradict one of the basic tenets of Western thought, which is that careful self-analysis leads to wisdom. As Socrates famously ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kayt Sukel

Developing Addiction Unexpected rewards lead to the release of dopamine in the basal ganglia, which facilitates learning. The more rewarding a particular stimulus may be, the more likely you will ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Oliver Sacks [Sacks, Oliver]

She consulted Dr. Theresa Ruggiero, a developmental optometrist, who found that Sue’s eyes were developing various forms of imbalance—this sometimes happens after surgery for strabismus—so that the reasonable vision she ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Kahneman, Daniel [Kahneman, Daniel]

If you prefer an apple to a banana, then you also prefer a 10% chance to win an apple to a 10% chance to win a banana. The apple and ...