Squad Leader TD-73028 Soliloquy (A Star Wars meets Shakespeare Short Film) Maxime-Claude L’Écuyer
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Vimeo: Squad Leader TD-73028 Soliloquy (A Star Wars meets Shakespeare Short Film)
2019.01.17 – 13:01
Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar on Altruism
2019.01.16 – 15:39
Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar on Altruism “COWEN: And where does it come from, the hostility toward extreme altruists? Is it people feeling envy or that they don’t measure up? MACFARQUHAR: I think it comes from many, many sources, and I tried to unravel some of them in the book. I think it comes from a […]
Sebastian Junger on Tribe
2019.01.15 – 09:05
Sebastian Junger on Tribe “Humans are a social–we are social primates. Humans do not survive alone in nature. They die. They die almost immediately. The reason that we survive, and the reason in fact we thrive, is because we work in groups where the individual contributes to the common good and the group ensures the […]
Economics helps explain why suicide is more common among Protestants
2019.01.15 – 09:01
Economics helps explain why suicide is more common among Protestants “One key is that the suicidal tendency of Protestants is more pronounced in areas with low church attendance. The strongest effect is thus more likely to be found in areas with little social integration rather than in areas with high devotion to the Protestant doctrine. […]
Your Flaws Are Probably More Attractive Than You Think They Are
2019.01.10 – 14:43
Your Flaws Are Probably More Attractive Than You Think They Are “Responses to someone’s vulnerability largely seem to depend on how others perceive that person beforehand. If she appears strong and capable before showing vulnerability, people are sympathetic; the vulnerability is humanizing, like that time Jennifer Lawrence tripped on her way to accept the Best […]
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
2019.01.05 – 10:10
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation “In the movie version of this story, this man moves to an island to rediscover the good life, or figures out he loves woodworking and opens a shop. But that’s the sort of fantasy solution that makes millennial burnout so pervasive. You don’t fix burnout by going on vacation. […]