The New York state comptroller’s decision to stick with hedge funds despite their poor returns has cost the Common Retirement Fund $3.8 billion in fees and…
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In this show, I'm interviewing Alexander Dunlop, a master of the 52 card deck which he calls "The Book of Life". I'm a great admirer…
Recently, sorting through a pile of old children’s books, I came across a volume, That Makes Me Mad!, which brought back memories. Written by Steve Kroll, a…
AUGUST 22nd: On today's program, Vince explores a wide-range of issues, from the ways in which media consolidation colors our collective culture, to the absurdity…
University of Chicago anthropologist William Mazzarella talks about psychological resonance, the concept of mana, and how magic helps illuminate advertising and propaganda. https://chicago.academia.edu/WilliamMazzarella
If the human species extinguishes itself in a flash of thermonuclear craziness and the surviving cockroaches later develop the intellect to assess why humans committed…
Part I: Eugene Wang, Sophie’s Kitchen Vegan Seafood Eugene Wang grew up immersed in the vegetarian food business. For 20 + years his family has…
The scientific confirmation of a human factor in global warming is accepted by a majority of Americans as well as scientists, yet those in power…
As I pointed out recently, mindfulness practice has entered the mainstream of western culture to such an extent that 2014 was proclaimed as “The Year of Mindfulness” by…
From mercury in tuna and wood pulp in parmesan cheese to ground beef treated with ammonia to retard E. coli (“pink slime”), the press does…
Oh, How primitive we are still! Around 1600, when Europeans began to use the methods of learning that are now called scientific, Galilleo peered at…
In a seminar room on an Ivy League campus, I sat across from earnest, and anxious college seniors. In a few months, they would leave…