This Summer, New York University researchers Jaime Napier and John Tost suggested that people on the Left are generally not as happy as their counterparts on the Right. Ewen Callaway explains:
The recent surge in home foreclosures, for instance, is due to poor economic choices on the part of borrowers, a conservative might think. Liberals, on [...]
There are certain books that have contributed to who I am. Here is my mentally and editorially filtered list. What other books do you think I should read?
The world, it seemed, was getting flatter and flatter. Or was it spikier? In any case, oil was cheap, and the global economy was a time-crunching, electron-beeping, carbon-smoking, border-integrating network of trade and finance. The Berlin Wall came tumbling down and the world wide web connected the Central Asias and Romanias to the North Americas [...]
I have been in Silicon Valley this week, where I attended a workshop at Stanford and other meetings. I learned about various tools that enable global teams to collaborate in ways otherwise impossible. Telephones and FedEx shipments are fine for some needs, but when your partner on a different continent appears to be sitting just [...]