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Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’

May 29, 2023

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Jeffrey Goldberg that appeared in The Atlantic (9/3/2020). To read the complete article, please click here. * * * The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked…

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How to Zoom Your Room: A book review by Bob Morris

June 28, 2022

How to Zoom Your Room: Room Rater’s Ultimate Style Guide Claude Taylor and Jessie Bahrey, with Illustrations by Chris Morris Voracious/An imprint of Little, Brown & Company (June 2021) Why “zoom a room”? Up front, I acknowledge with pride and…

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The Genius of Richard Florida: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

April 27, 2022

Richard Florida is author of the global best-sellers, The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City? A more recent book,The Great Reset, explains how new ways of living and working will drive post-crash prosperity. Other works include The Flight of the Creative…

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The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel

October 5, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an article written by James Fallows for The Atlantic. To rread the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here. * * * Why did it take so long…

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Charles Duhigg on Encouraging Innovation

January 5, 2019

In Smarter Faster Better, Charles Duhigg observes, “Productivity is the name we give our attempts to figure out the best uses of our energy, intellect, and time as we try to seize the most meaningful rewards with the least wasted…

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Charles Duhigg on Goal-Setting

December 22, 2018

In Smarter Faster Better, Charles Duhigg observes, “Productivity is the name we give our attempts to figure out the best uses of our energy, intellect, and time as we try to seize the most meaningful rewards with the least wasted…

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Beyond the Five Senses: Telepathy, Echolocation, and the Future of Perception

June 28, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article by Matthew Hutson that appeared in The Atlantic. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Alvaro Dominguez *…

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Power Causes Brain Damage

June 25, 2017

Over time, leaders lose mental capacities — most notably for reading other people — that were essential to their rise. Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Jerry Useem that appeared in The Atlantic. To read the complete…

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David Zweig on “Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of the Workforce”

October 31, 2016

In Invisibles (Portfolio/Penguin Group 2015), David Zweig develops in much greater depth several insights introduced earlier in an article that appeared in The Atlantic (March 12, 2012), “What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have in Common?.” He explains why some people…

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Four great books to read this summer

July 13, 2016

Family members, friends, and business associates frequently ask me to suggest some “great books” to read during the summer. I cannot think of four better than these, all of them written by Erik Larson: Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time,…

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