Pharmacological-induced "entrepreneurship" won't create successful entrepreneurs. It will only promote risky behavior without the attached risk-calculation and thoughtfulness.
realsimple.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
Blindsided by a job loss, the unfamiliar isn't to be feared: It can be a chance to turn your life around....
Janice Horowitz | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living
Five-to-10-year-olds who used sealants had less than half the tooth decay on biting surfaces five years after treatment than those who brushed regularly. But are they safe?
Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
The higher the amount of testosterone, the more willing people are to take risks. Women, with considerably less of the male hormone coursing through their bodies, are more risk averse.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business
One view of "normal" has come out of the crisis stronger than ever: that "normal" doesn't exist at all, that the belief in market equilibrium has been effectively undermined.
Richard Reiss | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green
Over the summer, we set a couple of dozen creative students the task of describing the risk from climate change, as framed in the most recent IPCC and MIT reports.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Wall Street has all the sentience, maturity and emotional self-control of a teenager...or maybe of a 50-year-old guy with a tiny ponytail and a red BMW Z4.
forbes.com | Thomas F. Cooley | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Children with emotional difficulties have a greater risk of becoming obese in adulthood, new research has found....
AP | By STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (AP) -- A year after the financial system nearly collapsed, the nation's biggest banks are bigger and regaining their appetite for risk. Gol...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
Einstein often made reference to god, but in doing so created the mistaken impression that he actually believed in one.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
Were we crazy to believe, or at least fear, that we were heading into a depression in December?
N. E. Marsden | Posted 07.20.2009 | Business
Pioneers in the field of neurofinance are searching for the right neurococktail of emotion and logic for today's fast-paced electronic marketplace.
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living
The message here is that although we may be fixed in the ways in which we handle guilt, we can teach our brains to become smarter about how we handle our desires.
newsweek.com | Nikhil Swaminathan | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business
A region of the midbrain called the ventral striatum may be partly to blame for the fact that millions of Americans fell prey to risky financial gambl...
Jeannie Ralston | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
We're living in limbo--should we stay or should we go? As more people don surgical masks in our town, as the WHO raises the pandemic threat level, I'm trying to keep my wits about me.
New York Times | Tyler Cowen | Posted 05.06.2009 | Business
THE Obama administration's proposals to reform financial regulation sound ambitious enough as they aim to bring companies like A.I.G. under a broader ...
Joel Weinberger | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business
How do we explain this behavior? Stupidity? Greed? Arrogance? To a degree, all of the above. But there is more going on and that more is part of human psychology.
Michael Likosky | Posted 03.29.2009 | Business
It's time to broaden our network of town hall meetings to turn national economic security problems into global sustainable solutions.
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Andrew Winston | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green
What will happen now in this damaged economy? It would be silly to suggest that the intensity of the focus on green will continue unabated. But we'll see a form of what I'll call "light green" this year.
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 09.23.2008 | Living
We're exploring in more depth the ideas from last week's article on how to stay on course during turbulent times. #2: Develop your courage muscles...
Jared Bernstein | Posted 09.10.2008 | Business
"Conservative" used to mean risk-averse. Now it means "risk be damned, I want my oil, my house, my risky financial instruments, and my government bailout when they fail."
Peter M. Haas | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green
Do we know if climate change is the most pressing global environmental threat? It might be, but are we so sure that we are confident about neglecting other pressing threats?
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
Be careful what you wish for, John. That seems to be the message of the week for Senator John McCain. He took some campaign consultant's idea a few w...
Halle Tecco | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living