Exercise And Cancer
I am somewhat of an evangelist on this topic. Click the image below to be taken to the show.
When Growth Stalls
I am in no way a fundamental analyst – in fact as a skill set for investing I regard it as irrelevant and an example of being seduced by your own narrative fallacy. However, I am in business and I am intrigued as to why some businesses stall, whither and die. I came across the…
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Long Play
McCartney has worked so hard at seeming an ordinary bloke that it is easy to miss the least ordinary and least bloke-ish thing about him: the magnitude of his melodic gift. A genius for melody is a strange, surprisingly isolated talent, and doesn’t have much to do with a broader musical gift for composition; Mozart…
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The Cure For Fear
Kindt, 48, has devoted her career to understanding human fear and memory. She has built her own laboratory, published in the most prestigious scientific journals, and developed a simple treatment she hopes might one day help millions of people who suffer from PTSD, phobias, and other anxiety disorders. In her clinic, she has seen it…
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Bikes Again
Last week I wrote about the problems people had drawing an item they were often intimately familiar with. The study I cited was used as a mechanism to highlight the fact that we actually know less than we think we do. Coincidentally Gianluca Gimini an artist has been collecting images of bike drawings since 2009 and…
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Do What You Say You Are Going To Do
Today has been clean out day for part of my email archive and as usual it is filled with the detritus that you pick up over the months. But this clean out is slightly different because it had a distinct theme, this folder was full of emails from people who were promising to develop stuff,…
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You Cant Keep A Good Bubble Down.
Jeremy He started pouring his savings into commodities last month after losing money in China’s stock rout and deciding that returns from his WMPs were too low. The 25-year-old employee at a multinational trade company in Shanghai set up a joint account with his friend to trade futures on rebar, coal and cotton, making as…
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