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How Your Brain Keeps You Believing Crap That Isn’t True

Much of what you believe to be true probably isn’t, thanks to a mental shortcut your brain takes without you realizing it.

Much of what you believe to be true probably isn’t, thanks to a mental shortcut your brain takes without you realizing it.

In response to a question about whether the Bush administration had adequate evidence showing Iraq was providing weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously said:

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8 Ways You’re Making People Tune Out When You Speak

You spend up to 80% of your day communicating, so take care not to fall prey to these common missteps.

You spend up to 80% of your day communicating, so take care not to fall prey to these common missteps.

In meetings, emails, conversations, and conference calls, business leaders spend roughly 80% of their time communicating. So, it’s a significant waste of time and resources if that communication isn’t effective. When it comes to the way we speak to others—either groups or individuals—we can often be inadvertently doing or saying things that undermine our effectiveness.

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Unpacking The Moral Logic Of Third-Party Voting

We’re more inclined to take principled stands when there’s low personal risk in doing so.

We’re more inclined to take principled stands when there’s low personal risk in doing so.

As election day draws near, many Americans are not thrilled with their options for president. Both candidates have historically high unfavorable ratings, with Hillary Clinton at 53% and Donald Trump at 61%, by one recent measure. That’s left a sizable proportion of Americans struggling with how to vote. According to CNN’s latest tally, some 14% of registered voters plan to cast ballots for a third-party candidate, whereas third-party candidates received less than 1% of the popular vote in each of the three past presidential elections.

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Can Startup College Minerva Reinvent The Ivy League Model For The Digital Age?

The new institution’s flexible, work-from-anywhere policy is attracting accomplished faculty eager to teach high-achieving students.

The new institution’s flexible, work-from-anywhere policy is attracting accomplished faculty eager to teach high-achieving students.

Levy Odera has made it his mission in life to find solutions to poverty. “I grew up in a relatively poor neighborhood with a relatively poor family in Kenya,” says the political science PhD, now an expert in international development.

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