Energy

The oil price-fixing scandal has landed in the U.S.

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Right On

Fannie Mae "is regaining its swagger even as lawmakers plot its demise"

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Politicking

Wall Street lobbyists frequently help draft financial legislation

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Abenomics

The deeper agenda behind Abenomics

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It’s Academic

It's Academic

Slick presentations make you overestimate how much you've learned

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hussein kanji: Is this why TED talks seem to be so convincing? http://t.co/NxayAvuFJN
It's Academic

"An attempt to describe intelligence as a fundamentally thermodynamic process"

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Adrian Monck: Intelligent behaviour can emerge as a response to all available future outcomes #science http://t.co/BSmC51krkr
It's Academic

Fair wages increase productivity

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Chris Dillow: Blogged: how higher wages sometimes raise productivity http://t.co/CyOws06f
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Researchers discover that elephants have four distinct personality types

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Matt Zeitlin: FTFY RT @mccarthyryanj People have 4 consistent personality types: "fearful, sociable, aggressive or effective" http://t.co/Xz4QfaVm …
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Looking at cute animals improves work performance, study says

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Justin Wolfers: "Results show that participants performed tasks requiring focused attention more carefully after viewing cute images." http://t.co/pdxcMPmY
It's Academic

Why your brain is trained to think the number 3 is special

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news.yc Popular: What number is halfway between 1 and 9? Is it 5 or 3? http://t.co/uWd86LNQ
It's Academic

Richard Posner on taxation, wealth and luck

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It's Academic

Study says the average Death Row last meal is incredibly high calories

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Bob Cohn: Avg last meal on Death Row is 2756 calories, w 2.5x recommended servings of protein, fat. h/t @justinwolfers http://t.co/KvIPTbP5
It's Academic

Stop the dishonesty, this is politics! 125 Harvard students may have cheated in "Intro to Congress" class

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It's Academic

Ayn Rand's theories: the economic equivalent of creationism

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Why Study Ayn Rand?