Wiener Zeitung: “Gott soll einen behüten vor allem, was noch ein Glück war”, zitiert Friedrich Torberg seine Tante Jolesch. Mit seinen Büchern über die Tante Jolesch er nicht nur seiner Jugend und dem jüdischen Leben im Wien und Prag der Zwischenkriegszeit, sondern auch dem Schönreden ein Denkmal gesetzt. Wer vom More
The Epoch Times: Adults rely heavily on verbal labels to identify objects and understand the world around them, and scientists have long believed that children’s minds work the same way. A new study from Ohio State University, however, suggests otherwise. “As adults, we know that words are very predictive,” said More
For decades, science has suggested that when people make decisions, they tend to ignore logic and go with the gut. But Wim De Neys, a psychological scientist at the University of Toulouse in France, has a new suggestion: Maybe thinking about logic is also intuitive. He writes about this idea More
Salon: What role do our surroundings have in the choices we make? Consider the fact that we are more likely to commit a “random” act of kindness toward a person who has already done something kind toward us. We are less likely to help someone in serious trouble when we’re More
Scientific American: This past week, Winnie-the-Pooh just wouldn’t let me go. Please write about me, he kept whining. And when I told him I’d already written about him last week, he just looked confused. So what? Write about me again. He insisted that one time was not nearly enough, that More
USA Today: Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow is not only a best seller, it’s making many best-books-of-the-year lists, including those from The New York Times and Amazon. It entered USA TODAY’s list at No. 28 on Nov. 3 and, after eight weeks, is No. 45. Kahneman, who won the More
