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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The dismantling of the idea of the West began when medieval philosophers began re-introducing the Sophist notions reduced to ashes by Socrates. This reintroduction came about as a reaction to extreme scholasticism in the Middle Ages. It was a fascinating thought experiment known as nominalism, but it unwittingly wrought massive damage upon the very ways
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Yesterday, we published a piece on indoctrination and propaganda in an American high school. After it went up, we found out there was confusion about sharing the documents and the family who drew attention to the questionable handouts worried about the repercussions to their student. Having been on the receiving end of such repercussions in
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In September 2014, the New York Times published an article whose headline came as a shock to many: “Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent.” The article’s author, Nick Bilton, reported that he was surprised when Jobs told him back in 2010 that “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.” But as it
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The world recently learned of the death of the Soviet military hero Stanislav Petrov who saved the world from nuclear war. In 1983, Colonel Petrov was on duty to detect incoming missiles aimed for the Soviet Union. His computer console told him that there were five incoming nuclear missiles. Without any evidence, Petrov made the
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Former CBS investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked a chilling question on Wednesday: Have U.S. intel agencies become “politically weaponized”? It sounds like an absurd question. It’s the type of speculation respectable journalists (and editors) normally would not raise at a cocktail party, let alone attach their byline to in an op-ed. But Attkisson, whose own
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