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The door-to-door salesperson had no leverage. If he was at your door, he wasn't at anyone else's door. Every minute you spent with him was a minute he had to spend with you. While it wa ...

Three of my friends got hacked this week. You get an ecard and click. It asks you to log in to your email. Boom, done. It hacks your email account, steals all of your contacts and then sends itself ...

Engineers, scientists, and most of all, businesses are looking for the right answer. It's such a common quest that we take it for granted, but it's new, and it continues to cause stress ...

Every writer has all of them. 26 in most Western languages. But no writer knows all the words. That's the gap where creativity, effort and possibility lie-between the universal letters ...

If it's just the right amount of necessary kindness, it's not really kindness. It's pleasantness. If the people in our circle begin to experience behavior that's kinder than ...

If you want to drink more herbal tea, get a hot water dispenser that keeps it handy and on tap. On the other hand, if you want to watch less television, disconnect the TV after every viewing sessio ...

We all make them from time to time. You might not know what you need to know. This is where experience is created. You might have an identity that pushes you to make those choices. If you're ...

TINA! This is what Margaret Thatcher said about her draconian free market policies. It's an easy thing to tell ourselves about compliance to any dominant system. But it's incomplete. Th ...

It's a question so rarely asked it almost feels silly to ask it. Some situations and some jobs work to eliminate our freedom of choice. Prison, medical school, 8th grade-there are setti ...

Word salad is actually nutritious when consumed in small amounts. Placebos are real, they're effective and they often help us find solace or perhaps to heal. If they do no harm, there's ...