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  • Why People Rarely Take the Last Donut at Meetings (But the Coffee Runs Dry)

    Why People Rarely Take the Last Donut at Meetings (But the Coffee Runs Dry)2

    As a professor, I’ve attended many administrative meetings. The one near-constant thing I, and others, have noticed at these meetings is that the coffee always runs out, but at least a small remnant of a donut remains. Why this occurs tells a great deal about how we use social norms to solve pool resource problems

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  • Why People Love (and Hate) Facebook

    Why People Love (and Hate) Facebook0

    You got a problem with Facebook? Go ahead. Think of what it is. Say it loud and proud. It is probably one of the one thousand or so common complaints listed at the book-length Wikipedia page: Criticism of Facebook. It’s been heard before. A thousand times. You get the impression that this must be the

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  • Why People in the UK (and U.S. Media) Should Go Back and Read John Milton’s ‘Areopagitikos’

    Why People in the UK (and U.S. Media) Should Go Back and Read John Milton’s ‘Areopagitikos’0

    In 1559, early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, England passed the 51st of the Injunctions Concerning Religion, which provided that no book in any language could be published without a license. Naturally, licenses were provided by powerful persons: the queen, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, a handful of select members of

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  • Why People in Hong Kong Have Incomes 5x Higher Than People in China’s Richest Province

    Why People in Hong Kong Have Incomes 5x Higher Than People in China’s Richest Province0

    For two decades, prosperity has followed economic freedom for the most economically free territory in the world: Hong Kong. An island lacking natural resources, Hong Kong was added to the British Empire after the Opium Wars and eventually transformed into a hub of Britain’s China trade. Britain’s 99-year lease on Hong Kong expired in 1997,

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  • Why People Fall for Fake History

    Why People Fall for Fake History1

    Students of the modern education system usually receive some version of the following historical tale of the West, aptly summarized by scholar David Bentley Hart: “Once upon a time… Western humanity was the cosseted and incurious ward of Mother Church; during this, the age of faith, culture stagnated, science languished, wars of religion were routinely

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  • Why People Do Evil

    Why People Do Evil0

    • February 8, 2016

    In his TED talk entitled “The Psychology of Evil,” social psychologist Philip Zimbardo utilizes the following, typically flat-to-solid-perspective image from the work of M.C. Escher: The white images are angels; the black, devils. The dual lesson Zimbardo uses the picture to illustrate, in advance of his argument, is this: Not only are good and evil

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