"Ayn Rand's novels of headstrong entrepreneurs' battles against convention enjoy a devoted following in business circles. While academia has failed to embrace Rand, calling her philosophy simplistic, schools have agreed to teach her works in exchange for a donation."(Read more...)
[Get ready to hold your noses, folks!] But America's top car dealer says what we really need in this country is high gas prices—something in the neighborhood of $6 a gallon—if we ever really want to tackle the critical issues of the day: global warming and our oil addiction. "The biggest lie in America politics today i...(Read more...)
Its hilarious to read the irony of Majid Ezzati... "Ezzati says he saw such disparities after the fall of the Soviet Union and after the social networks fell apart in Eastern Europe." Ezzati says "That monitoring should be telling us something about what sort of interventions, what sort of policies can reverse this an...(Read more...)
Emotional Distractions Hobble Memory Formation Posted by William Dwyer on 4/20, 10:36pm
Emotionally powerful distractions hobble memory formation. For the first time, researchers have seen in action how the "hot" emotional centers of the brain can interfere with "cool" cognitive processes such as those involved in memory tasks. Their functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) images of human volu...(Read more...)
