The economics are compelling. Start a movie studio, a record label or a book publisher that only markets hits. No clunkers. No filler. Simply the hits. Easier than it sounds. Why doesn’t a musician go straight to a “greatest hits” record and save everyone a lot of time and hassle? Why doesn’t a…

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F OR A SO-CALLED ghetto, Mjolnerparken seems rather pleasant. The public-housing complex in Copenhagen contains well-tended playgrounds full of cavorting children and their Somali- and Pakistani-Danish mothers. But it is a bit of a maze, and it can be hard for outsiders to find people, especially if…

E IGHT TIMES Raymond Poulidor stood on the podium at the end of the Tour de France, soaked in sweat, exhausted and smiling his big gap-toothed smile. He was just never on the top step. In 14 Tours someone else always pipped him or, to be honest, passed him by quite a lot. He came second three times,…

As a kid, I definitely favored Sesame Street over Mr. Rogers. Don’t forget that Captain Kangaroo was part of that time too. I found Mr. Rogers’s old school like something out of another era. As you can see I was always looking to the future. As an adult, I have always applauded how he connected in…

Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This The devices have become our constant companions. This was not the plan. Mr. Newport is a computer scientist and author. Credit... Zak Tebbal 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 Leer en español Smartphones are our constant companions. For many of us, their glowing…

W HEN IT COMES to sexual behaviour, the animal kingdom is a broad church. Its members indulge in a wide variety of activities, including with creatures of the same sex. Flying foxes gather in all-male clusters to lick each other’s erect penises. Male Humboldt squid have been found with…

O N NOVEMBER 9TH 2018 a Piper Dakota light aircraft flying over Iowa broadcast a distress call. The pilot seemed to have suffered a heart attack. One of the other three people on board, a student aviator, had taken over the controls, but to no avail. The plane crashed shortly afterwards, killing all…

Categories Books Ryan Holiday’s newest book, Stillness Is The Key , came out at the beginning of October. I ended up with two copies and thought I’d read it over the weekend after they showed up at my house. The weekend slipped by and I didn’t pick it up until mid-day on Thanksgiving. It was pouring…

The flawed theory is that A+ students become good leaders. There’s no reason to think that this should be true. Doing well on tests, paying attention to what’s being asked, being diligent in short-term error correction–these are three hallmarks of someone who is good at school. None of these are…

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Just this tonight, while I wait for the stars ……… a poem by Joyce Rupp Old Maps No Longer Work I keep pulling it out – the old map of my inner path I squint closely at it, trying to see some hidden road that maybe I’ve missed, but there’s nothing there now except some well travelled paths. they have…

Alex Poots is the founding chief executive and artistic director of the Shed . He is a delightful human being and intensely passionate about the arts. He lives, breathes, sleeps and thinks about how to bring every practice of art to the public in cutting edge ways to engage audiences and excite the…

Tags dystopia Categories Personal Amy and I have been watching The Handmade’s Tale. Simultaneously, I’ve been listening to the book on Audible while running. Last night I said, “The Hulu adaptation of the book is really good.” And then we both grimaced, as we’ve each commented many times over the…

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Researchers prepare to attach a heart monitor to a surfacing blue whale. M. S. Savoca Ba-bum . The heart of a blue whale, diving off the coast of California, has just contracted. The beat took about two seconds to finish, and pushed dozens of gallons of blood through the arteries of the largest…

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Often overlooked is the decision every marketer makes about how they will treat the issue of power (asymmetrical or not) in their marketing. Consider insurance. Companies like Allstate don't market themselves as the dominant force in the relationship. They don't say, "you give us money every month…

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EVEN ITS most ardent admirers will admit that the Tatra T77A (pictured below) is an oddity. It is long and low-slung, almost porpoise-shaped, with a rounded front, tapered rear and a fin running along its spine. The windscreen is divided into three sections, and most models sport a third, central…

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I talk a lot about product culture and how important it is, but one inconvenient fact has always bothered me, which is that my favorite product companies – for example, Google, Apple and Amazon – all have such different cultures. I came to realize that the conventional notions of culture don’t…

Tell me if this is familiar: You go to Target or Costco, just to buy a couple of things. Some shampoo. Bananas if they’re ripe. Then you go to check out and somehow you’ve spent $180. You stare at the receipt. It adds up–but where did your money go? If only the receipt itself visualized our spending…

The other day, a copy of the new Baffler came in the mail. Back in the nineties, published out of Chicago and edited by Thomas Frank, The Baffler articulated an

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Good Economics for Hard Times. By Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. PublicAffairs; 432 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25. W HEN THE authors of this excellent book were awarded the Nobel prize for economics last month, French media crowed that a Frenchwoman had won it; Indian media that an Indian-born…

Here’s Stephen Harrigan (talking about his book, Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas ) and a reproduction of one of Botticelli’s paintings of St. Augustine . (Like almost all writers, St. Augustine, too, wondered about the problem of how to begin . ) In my experience writing books, it isn’t just…

Nov 21st 2019 W HEN BRIGITTE BARDOT was on the set of “The Legend of Frenchie King”, with a crowd of photographers snapping her, Terry O’Neill was waiting. Not, like the others, for the moment she would turn her gorgeous self towards them and strike a stunning pose with her leather trousers and…

A man is being sought by police for directing "horrific" anti-Semitic abuse towards Jewish children on the London Underground. He was filmed reading anti-Jewish Bible passages to two boys in skullcaps travelling with family on the Northern Line at about midday on Friday. "He was just screaming at…

Kipchoge had attemped to break the two-hour mark once before, in 2017 A week before the big day, in the middle of the night, Eliud Kipchoge was fast asleep at his training base in the hills of Kenya. The greatest male distance runner of all time would soon be launching his second attempt at making…

The first rule of cross-examination at trial is that you never ask a question that you don’t already know the answer to. Inquiry has a place. Inquiry in the pursuit of science, of discovery and of learning is essential. But inquiry almost never belongs in a presentation. That’s because the…

Something look funny? Read this newsletter online! Hey, Happy Friday! I cannot believe we only have one week left of November?? Bananas! And on that note, you only have until this Sunday to catch the final deals for the Clever Training VIP Sale ! As well to make your weekend even a little better,…

A FTER ALMOST two decades of visiting and living in India, it was only after your columnist had his first child there that he glimpsed the soul of the place. Everyone loves a baby, but Indians seem to love them more. Housewives and security guards would trip over themselves to greet Lexington’s…

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