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Salt in Their Veins
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"The social structure of the inland Maine community is unlike anything you might meet with anywhere else. The kids never move out of the town they were raised in, there is no theft, the center of town is the fish store, or the post office."
Daily Speculations, July 19, 2016 , Victor Niederhoffer
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Cheats and Deceits
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How Animals and Plants Exploit and Mislead
Oxford University Press, February 2016 , Martin Stevens
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Bristlecone Pines and Markets
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Bristlecone Pines do very well where most other plants cannot even grow. What would be the equivalent in today's markets?
InvestmentOffice, February 2016 , Ronald Weber
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Traffic jam of executive aviation 2015
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Phoenix Sky Harbor airport in Arizona
Super Bowl 2015
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Alice in Quantumland: A Charming Illustrated Allegory of Quantum Mechanics by a CERN Physicist
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This book is an allegory of quantum physics, in the dictionary sense of “a narrative describing one subject under the guise of another.”
Brain Pickings, 30/01/2014 , Maria papova
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Everything from this 1991 this Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone
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There are 15 electronic gimzo type items on this page, being sold from America's Technology Store. 13 of the 15 you now always have in your pocket.
Trending Buffalo, January 14, 2014 , Steve Cichon
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How Our Minds Mislead Us: The Marvels and Flaws of Our Intuition
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“The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct.”
Brainpickings, October 2013 , Maria Popova
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Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience
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"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
Brainpickings, May 29, 2013 , by Maria Popova
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Cotton Candy Economics
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Sugar, a staple commodity, has taken on a growing share of our diet over the past century. But it wasn’t always like that.
Lobnek Wealth Management, August 2013 , Altug Ulkumen, CFA, Independent Contributor
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Food for the Mind from Friedrich A. von Hayek
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A selection of observations from the great Austrian economist. In stark contrast to the neo-classical school Hayek reminded us that a good economist is also a student of history, philosophy, psychology, sociology and even of biology.
Investments Office, July 2013
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