mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Temple Grandin; Catherine Johnson

1. Communicate your results outside the research community. It's important to publish your research in peer-reviewed journals so knowledge doesn't get lost. But just publishing in journals isn't enough. Researchers ...

mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Christian, Brian [Christian, Brian]

7. Barging In Listeners keep up with talkers; they do not wait for the end of a batch of speech and interpret it after a proportional delay, like a critic ...

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 | 2010-08-15 | Author:Dan Ariely

* * * “Dan, when we got this car last year I was ecstatic, but now it no longer makes me happy. What do you think about renovating the kitchen?” ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-03-03 | Author:Dan Ariely

Reflections on the Challenges of Ownership In 2007 and 2008, home values across America plummeted as fast as George W. Bush’s approval ratings. Each month brought with it more bad ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |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, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-04-02 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell

6. Millennium Challenge, Part Two For a day and a half after Red Team’s surprise attack on Blue Team in the Persian Gulf, an uncomfortable silence fell over the JFCOM ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-13 | Author:Jonah Lehrer

In a second study, Jia found that Indiana University students were much better at solving a series of insight puzzles when told that the puzzles came from California and not ...

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 ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Joshua Foer

Twain lived in an age when the technologies for storing and retrieving external memories—paper, books, the recently invented photograph and phonograph—were still primitive compared to what we have today. He ...

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 |eng | 2008-12-22 | Author:Burka, Jane B. [Burka, Jane B.]

THE FREEDOM FROM PROCRASTINATION CODE It is not possible to be perfect. Making an effort is a good thing. It is not a sign of stupidity or weakness. Failure is ...

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 ...