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We (Don’t) Need To Talk About Pierre: The Benefits of French Parenting?
Judging from the amount of forwards to my inbox, Pamela Druckerman’s “Why French Parents Are Superior” has some relevant things to say. The article is another in a line of Wall Street Journal...
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Another Week Ends: Joseph Mills, Commitment Devices, Anxiety Rights, Bible...
1. One of the many things to adore about David Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again is the cover (of the US edition). The collage manages to capture the torrential intellect at...
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Another Week Ends: Inner Machiavellians, Lutheran Insults, Whisky Priests,...
1. I’ll admit it: I’ve been trying to lay off the David Brooks, at least in the Weekend columns. As insightful as he frequently is, there are plenty of fish in the digital sea, are there not? Well, to...
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Another Week Ends: John Carter, Obesity FAILs, Mary Karr on Suffering,...
1. “I am not Jesus, but I have the same initials.” Thus sang Jarvis Cocker on the classic Pulp track “Dishes” (at bottom), and it now looks like he has a new contender to the throne, Tim Riggins...
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The Crazy-Making IPO: Facebook Madness and the Compulsive iDisorder
Add one more to the tally, after Franzen, after Marche, after Turkle. The Wall Street Journal‘s “Smart Money” blog, Pay Dirt, which does a lot of interesting behavioral economics writing, performed a...
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Little Lies and Not-So-Little Lies (We Can’t Disguise)
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely hit an anthropological home run in the Wall Street Journal this past weekend with “Why We Lie,” a preview of his ridiculously well-titled upcoming book, The (Honest)...
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Another Week Ends: Un-Free Shoppers, Artists, Procrastinators, Middle Class...
1. Good news for the procrastinators out there. The Wall Street Journal published “How To Be A Better Procrastinator” this week, which analyzes when and why procrastinators procrastinate–and, surprise...
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The Difference Between Christmas and Easter
A few paragraphs from James Martin’s remarkable article in this past Sunday’s Wall Street Journal, “The Challenge of Easter”: The Christmas story is largely nonthreatening to nonbelievers: Jesus in the...
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How do you get people to like you? Many of us are too embarrassed to admit we care about the answer, but the question is often at the forefront of our minds. There are countless studies online to help...
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Another Week Ends: Immortal Smartphones, Jefferson Bethke, Adolesc …
1. In last weekend’s NY Times Magazine, Carina Chocano explained “The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg” – AKA what our current obsession with “data” has to say about our humanity – dropping her usual...
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