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Buying time promotes happiness
Despite rising incomes, people around the world are feeling increasingly pressed for time, undermining well-being. We show that the time famine of modern life can be reduced by using money to buy time. Surveys of large, diverse samples from four countries reveal that spending money on time-saving services is linked to greater life satisfaction. To…
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Maryam Mirzakhani
I first wrote about Maryam Mirzakhani when see became the first women to win a Fields Medal in mathematics. Sadly a few weeks ago she lost her battle with cancer aged 40 – the world needs more special minds not fewer but disease of any kind owes no one any favours. For those interested in…
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Some Bastards Have The Best Jobs
Kermit Weeks inherited a sizable fortune and parlayed it into one of the worlds largest collections of vintage aircraft…the lucky…lucky…bastard.
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What makes a good life?
I have posted this before but it came across my desk again today and it is worth a second go.
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A MATH GENIUS BLOOMS LATE AND CONQUERS HIS FIELD
….Huh’s math career began with much less acclaim. A bad score on an elementary school test convinced him that he was not very good at math. As a teenager he dreamed of becoming a poet. He didn’t major in math, and when he finally applied to graduate school, he was rejected by every university save…
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