10 non-work-related items that I found fun or interesting

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Given real-time information about their actions, people change their own behavior. Technology makes feedback loops more effective than ever...more

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Excavation of the oldest known religious structure has unearthed a tantalizing question: Did a sense of the sacred give rise to human civilization?...more

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The best ideas prevail. Well, maybe not. We're hard-wired to reject evidence and views that contradict our beliefs – these days, more than ever...more
This sort-of explains flat-earthers and others that I would describe as a bit weird!

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Stan Kenton's futuristic jazz and button-down style drew fans for years. He may have dressed like a church elder, but his personal life resembled a junkie’s...more

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Pity today’s &eeacute;lite twenty-somethings. Their loving parents pumped them full of enough self-esteem to ripen them into fragile, narcissistic wrecks ... more

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In online debates, we not only fail to cultivate charity and humility, we even think of them as vices: forms of weakness that compromise our advocacy... more

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Numbers don’t lie, but are the best kind of facts we have. Oh, yeah? Charles Seife shows how numbers are being twisted to erode our democracy... more

Play Snowball
This has been around for a while but this updated version is as addictive as ever!

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Suicide bombers: fervent automatons who hate the West and its values? Maybe not. Maybe they just want to commit suicide... more

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Isabel Hapgood's 1891 Atlantic Monthly profile of the passionate Count Leo Tolstoy turned out to be oddly prophetic in terms of the novelist's life... Intro ... Profile

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