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Aug 30, 2011
?uestlove: 15 Years [via Longreads]
?uestlove might not rap, but he’s still one of hip-hop’s best storytellers, and he had plenty of yarns when we spoke with him recently about all of the above— including the time Puffy screamed on…
Apr 24, 2011
The Sharing Economy
Gorenflo is a leading proselytizer of a global trend to make sharing something far more economically significant than a primitive behavior taught in preschool. Spawned by a confluence of the economic…
Apr 24, 2011
The Possibilian
The brain is a remarkably capable chronometer for most purposes. It can track seconds, minutes, days, and weeks, set off alarms in the morning, at bedtime, on birthdays and anniversaries. Timing is…
Apr 23, 2011
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it. The way real science goes is that you come up with lots of ideas, and most of them will be wrong.The Possibilian
Apr 16, 2011
Plato, Aristotle, and Thomas Hobbes posited the superiority theory of humor, which states that we find the misfortune of others amusing. Sigmund Freud espoused the relief theory, which states that comedy is a way for people to release suppressed thoughts and emotions safely. Incongruity theory, associated with Immanuel Kant, suggests that jokes happen when people notice the disconnect between their expectations and the actual payoff.One Professor’s Attempt to Explain Every Joke Ever
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