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The article doesn't mention of "Bowling Alone" by Robert Putnam, which explored pretty much the same idea, a.k.a. the value of the 'room', (which for Putnam was 'social capital'), …

As a (young, thus-far childless) woman, I feel it's important to add something that men may not fully grasp and I haven't seen much in the thread so far: what tips the scales in th…

This actually isn't true for some types of farmed fish, like Norwegian salmon, but it varies by area and by company. The industry is looking into alternatives like insects, and typ…

>> Through the big role played by the industrial fishing, 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic float in our oceans, enough to circulate the equator 425 times, go to the moon twice and b…

You are not alone in your struggle with West Elm quality. This blog post describes the 'Peggy truther' community (of people surprised and upset with their Peggy couch): https://www…

Interesting site. I currently work at a hedge fund, but have a small dose of NLP in my academic background, so it's always interesting to see concepts like this come out. Two quest…

Isn't this the idea behind Registered Reports? ( https://www.cos.io/our-services/registered-reports / https://www.elsevier.com/reviewers-update/story/innovation-i... )

You would enjoy Saygin et al, (2000) [1] ('Turing test: 50 years later). 'Not getting math right' is part of a classic repertoire of cheap hacks used to pass the Turing test by mim…

LBOs are not synonymous with private equity. LBOs do not always lead to corporate raiding or asset stripping, in the same way that the restructuring and rationalisation that follow…

These predictions often surely make most sense and are most prevalent in a particular field of NLP research, like dialogue (open-domain, non-task oriented). Believable dialogue see…

An interesting overview of Edward Bernays' life, work, and life's work cementing his position as the creator of modern commercial propaganda is Larry Tye's _The Father of Spin_. It…