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Principles
Feb 1, 2022 · Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio built Bridgewater Associates out of his small New York City apartment in 1975. Bridgewater is now considered one of the most successful inve...
Business Economics and Finance Self-Help -
Woke Racism
Jan 27, 2022 · John McWhorter
Linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter argues that while the antiracist movement is often viewed as a political phenomenon, it is b...
Current Affairs Politics -
Sapiens
Jan 25, 2022 · Yuval Noah Harari
Seventy thousand years ago, organisms from the species Homo sapiens emerged on the scene. The study of their development and activities is called hist...
History Society and Culture -
Games People Play
Jan 20, 2022 · Eric Berne
Eric Berne (1910-1970) was a Canadian-born psychiatrist who developed a revolutionary theory of human behavior called transactional analysis. Transact...
Relationships and Parenting Psychology Society and Culture -
God and Stephen Hawking
Jan 18, 2022 · John Lennox
Stephen Hawking is a world-renowned physicist, cosmologist and a professor at Cambridge University. He’s also an outspoken atheist. In his recen...
Philosophy Religion and Theology Science and Technology -
Moonwalking with Einstein
Jan 13, 2022 · Joshua Foer
The USA Memory Championship is an annual competition held in New York since the early 90s. There are several events, including name-face recall, memor...
Science and Technology Self-Help -
The Case Against Sugar
Jan 11, 2022 · Gary Taubes
Sweets are loaded with sugar—that’s what makes them sweet. Everyone knows that. What isn’t as widely known is that other foods come ...
Health and Wellness -
Darwin's Black Box
Jan 6, 2022 · Michael Behe
Many presume that because science is able to explain how nature works, it is also able to explain its origins. However, as Michael Behe explains, &ldq...
Science and Technology -
Why Buddhism is True
Jan 4, 2022 · Robert Wright
In the popular sci-fi movie, The Matrix, the lead character, Neo, is informed that an artificial intelligence has subjugated the human race. To k...
Philosophy Religion and Theology -
What Happened
Dec 30, 2021 · Hillary Rodham Clinton
A few months after losing her second bid for the presidency and after some much needed rest, Hillary Rodham Clinton sat down to write a book detailing...
Current Affairs Politics
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