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  • How to Fight Bullshit at Work (and Keep Your Dignity and Job)

    How to Fight Bullshit at Work (and Keep Your Dignity and Job)0

    After getting lost in the conference hotel, I finally located the ‘creativity workshop’. Joining the others, I sat cross-legged on the floor. Soon, an ageing hippie was on his feet. ‘Just walk around the room and introduce yourself,’ he said. ‘But don’t use words.’ After a few minutes of people acting like demented mimes, the

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  • How to Ensure Productive Thanksgiving Debates

    How to Ensure Productive Thanksgiving Debates0

    We all have ideas we defend religiously, especially in a debate with others. There’s the passionate friend who sees capitalist abuses in the homeless man on the street. Or the neighbor who sees any defense of national borders as an assault on international human dignity. Perhaps you’ve even been that person yourself. But most ideas

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  • How to Eat Healthily on Just $3 a Day

    How to Eat Healthily on Just $3 a Day8

    Going to college, like all things, has its pros and cons. For me, one of the benefits was simply getting away from home, which gave me a crash-course in “adulting.” When I moved into a house with a bunch of friends my sophomore year, I was still pretty helpless. I couldn’t clean or cook worth

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  • How to Do Well at a New Job – in Five Easy Steps

    How to Do Well at a New Job – in Five Easy Steps0

    Can we please talk about how utterly awful starting a new job can be? No matter how wonderful your new coworkers are, how wonderful and understanding your new boss is, or how appealing your improved salary looks, the fact remains that, within mere moments of walking in the door on Day One, you are quite

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  • How to Diversify Your Child’s Potential

    How to Diversify Your Child’s Potential0

    Investors are always told to “diversify” their portfolios. Don’t put all your money in stocks — what if the market plunges? But don’t put all your money in bonds — you’ll miss the market rallies. And for God’s sake, don’t put all your money in one company. Or, to put it an older way: Don’t

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  • How to Discover the Real Number of U.S. COVID Cases

    How to Discover the Real Number of U.S. COVID Cases0

    Consider these two questions: What percentage of Americans are, or have been, infected with the coronavirus? And, what is the probability of dying from the virus if you catch it? One of the most unsettling aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic is that these two fundamental rates – the coronavirus infection rate and the case fatality

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