Culture

Self Control: The Overlooked Key to Wealth and Health 0
- Culture
- July 20, 2018
Experts often tell us that actions are a product of our genetics and environment. Happiness, health, and success correlate with biological or external realities. We can’t escape them, but we must cope with them. Turns out, that’s only part of the story. We have a secret weapon to take back ownership of our fates. Self-control.
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Think Open-Plan Offices Are More Efficient? Think Again.0
- Culture
- July 19, 2018
Open-plan offices have taken off because of a desire to increase interaction and collaboration among workers. But an innovative new study has found that employees in open-plan offices spend 73% less time in face-to-face interactions. Email and messaging use shot up by over 67%. The study is the first to track the impacts of open-plan
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Rome and the Decline and Fall … of Bureaucracy?0
- Culture
- July 19, 2018
We have all heard the comparison between the fall of Rome and the current state of decline in America. The comparison is often repeated, and its warning should not be forgotten. One writer who states this clearly is the historian Thomas Cahill. Writing on Roman decline in the book How the Irish Saved Civilization, Cahill
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Genetically Modified Babies? The Future Is Now 0
- Culture
- July 18, 2018
Designer babies are looking more and more like a reality whose time is imminent. Piggybacking on recent research which allows scientists “to rewrite the DNA bound up in living cells,” an ethics panel in the U.K. just released a report which suggests this maneuvering of genetics is “morally permissible.” The announcement does not come without
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Elon Musk and the Excessive Adoration of Technology Visionaries 0
- Culture
- July 18, 2018
Elon Musk is one of the most admired men in America. He founded Tesla, SpaceX, and numerous other entrepreneurial ventures that have captured the public’s hearts and imaginations. Who wouldn’t get excited about spaceships and the possibility of colonizing Mars? But people look to Musk for far more than just his technological vision. The internet
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The Art of Beautification: The Graces of Ordinary Life 0
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- July 18, 2018
The beautification of life, the highest “household art” of making people happy and places pretty, also encompasses the adornment of the soul. Because life is more than work, economics, and money, the life of the heart and spirit need constant replenishment… What do decorating a room, wearing tasteful clothes, expressing cheerfulness, offering friendship, enjoying Mayday,
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