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Why Do Some Succeed?
Why do some succeed, often spectacularly so, and others merely survive? What human trait is the best predictor of success? Which human trait should we…
September 8, 2009
Taking Calorie Counts With a Grain of Salt: Don’t Believe Everything You Read
Requiring restaurants, particularly chains, to put calorie counts beside each item is the latest skirmish in the battle against American obesity. But can you believe…
September 3, 2009
Reality Please
A lot can go wrong when we measure ourselves against bogus standards, standards that cannot be met because they are not real. They are fake,…
September 1, 2009
DNA Evidence Foolproof? NOT!
One of my pet peeves is our willingness to accept information offered up as solid fact without giving it a good smell test, without subjecting…
August 31, 2009
Hostile Interactions and Wound Healing
Wow! This is a mouthful of a title for a blog post: Hostile Interactions and Wound Healing. It is from the title of a study…
August 13, 2009
PopCap: Forget the CEOs: Congress Has a Fleet of 16 Jets
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Okay, we all got riled up about the Big 3 automakers flying to Washington in their Gulfstream IVs and Vs…
July 31, 2009
Motivation Matters Most
A recent study published in the February 26, 2009, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine looked at four common diets and found that…
July 30, 2009
The Importance of Considering Opportunity Costs
In economic theory (aka never never land), rational consumers weigh every purchase against alternative uses for that money, its opportunity cost. Money not being an…
July 28, 2009
PopCap: Big Brother Runs Amok for…Nada?
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) National security! Terrorist threats! These have been Washington’s mantra for close to 8 years as our civil liberties have been…
July 17, 2009
“Every Time You Scream at a Driver, She Learns a Lesson”
I saw this “Every Time You Scream at a Driver, She Learns a Lesson” poster on a street in Manhattan and I was really moved…
July 16, 2009
The Journal
There is a stack of used writing pads beside a chair in my home office. Most are yellow paper, most are letter-sized pads, a few…
July 13, 2009