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How many scandals can we understand at once?
If you’ve ever borrowed money for anything, from a mortgage to a student loan, you’ve been impacted by LIBOR. The London Interbank Offered Rate. Th…
11 years, 6 months ago
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles Blow
When we talk about America's history of segregation, its not just about race and class, but also about geography. Even as the civil right movement w…
11 years, 6 months ago
Writing in the 21st Century
Years ago, in Hollywood, someone once remarked that the amount of bad screenplay writing increased with the advent of the copy machine. The same cla…
11 years, 7 months ago
Gratitude & Trust
The world is a crazy place. Everyday here we talk about all the forces that are impacting us, making life more complex, confusing and making so many…
11 years, 7 months ago
The world's first tech start-up
Socrates was worried about the rise of written text. He feared that it would change our habits of mind and not allow us to remember.
The printing pre…
11 years, 7 months ago
How technology is reshaping philosophy
We've all played the game of thinking about and listing the most important inventions in the progress of mankind. Certainly from the wheel, to the p…
11 years, 7 months ago
Foreign Correspondent
Once upon a time we got our international news through the relentless reporting of foreign correspondent. The Vietnam war may have brought war into…
11 years, 7 months ago
Words to eat by
Few things ignite all of our senses to the degree that food does. Once simply a form of sustenance, food today, in restaurants or in markets, repres…
11 years, 7 months ago
This is your brain on narcissism.
Like it or not, the nature of our society and of our culture today is focused inward. Walk down any urban street, vs. 40 years ago and instead of lo…
11 years, 7 months ago
Instant Gratification and the Decline of Institutions
It seems quaint now, but there was a time we had to rely on others for most of our needs. We had to rely on family for food, operators to place call…
11 years, 7 months ago