Check out this wonderful street art, that seconds as a behavioral intervention to reduce traffic speed:
Very cool!
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Quick quiz: If there are 1,000 people in a village, and 10% of them have contracted a new, awful disease called acute hotchocolitis, how many people in the village are sick? This is not a trick question; the answer is 100. An easy question for readers of Forbes. But ask the average American, and one…
I recently spoke with Duke University’s The Chronicle about gender pay disparity in research medicine.
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In his wonderful 1992 book – Lincoln at Gettysburg – Gary Wills explains that one of the reasons the Gettysburg address was so powerful is that Lincoln did not use any proper names – that’s right any – in the entire address. Consider this portion of the speech: Now we are engaged in a great…
This is WAY outside my normal blogging topicry (topicry?), but I had to point you towards a Smithsnonian article called “Art Attack” by Will Ellsworth-Jones, if for no other reason than to check out the images recreated there of a British street artist named Bansky. Here is one of my favorites, that nicely captures the creativity…
In his book, To Save Everything, Click Here, Evgeny Morozov tells a story about a PR agent who was trying to create some buzz around a topic. No one seemed interested. And then the agent had an idea: “I dashed off a fake internal memo, printed it out, scanned it, and sent the file to…
In a recent post, I laid out a question to readers — about whether and how physicians should discuss the prognosis among patients whose shortened life expectancy is the result of their already long lives…(Read the rest and view comments at Scientocracy)